Melbourne (MEL) to Almaty (ALA): 7,024 miles (11,304 km) great-circle, about 14h 35m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $993 round-trip on Scoot, with 2 stops, departing June 6, 2026.
$993 round-trip, Scoot TR39, departing 2026-06-06 at 21:35, returning 2026-06-20. The recorded itinerary left on a Saturday, returning on a Saturday 14 nights later; the fare was observed 42 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $993, it ranked 20th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from MEL (median $688). That is 14.1 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), close to the MEL median of 14.5 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from MEL of similar length: Bishkek (7,108 mi) at $1467 and Tashkent (7,238 mi) at $1210.
Scoot had the cheapest fare on 7 of 30 MEL routes. It is the 11th longest of the 30 routes we track from MEL.
Of 71 departure airports with a fare to Almaty, Melbourne (MEL) ranked 53rd at $993. Lowest: $357 from Istanbul (IST); highest: $2596 from Santo Domingo (SDQ); 6 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Pegasus Airlines (9), Turkish (5), Air Arabia (4), Air China (4), AirAsia (3) and airline RR (3), plus 33 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Australia/Melbourne, Asia/Almaty; flight time is our estimate.