Sydney (SYD) to Hanoi (HAN): 4,840 miles (7,790 km) great-circle, about 10h 10m nonstop by our estimate. Cheapest fare observed: $523 round-trip on VietJet Air, with 1 stop, departing May 9, 2026.
$523 round-trip, VietJet Air VJ86, departing 2026-05-09 at 10:15, returning 2026-05-17. The recorded itinerary left on a Saturday, returning on a Sunday 8 nights later; the fare was observed 14 days before departure. "Book this flight" opens Kiwi.com with the same airline and dates.
At $523, it ranked 9th of the 30 round-trip fares we recorded from SYD (median $777). That is 10.8 cents per great-circle mile (round-trip price over one-way distance), below the SYD median of 15.3 cents across 30 round-trip routes.
Routes from SYD of similar length: Tokyo (4,858 mi) at $762 and Shanghai (4,903 mi) at $646.
VietJet Air had the cheapest fare on 3 of 30 SYD routes. It is the 20th longest of the 30 routes we track from SYD.
Of 9 departure airports with a fare to Hanoi, Sydney (SYD) ranked 9th at $523. Lowest: $170 from Bangkok (BKK); highest: $523 from Sydney (SYD); 4 nonstop. Cheapest-fare airlines (routes): Vietravel Airlines (2), China Eastern (1), HK Express (1), IndiGo (1), Korean Air (1) and Shenzhen Airlines (1), plus 2 more.
Travelpayouts fares (cheapest per route, observed April 25, 2026); OurAirports coordinates and elevations; IANA zones Australia/Sydney, Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh; flight time is our estimate.