Route brief · SYD → AMS
Sydney → Amsterdam
$998
round-trip · too little price history on this route to compare
Nov 24 – Dec 5 · 11 nights
China Eastern1 stop
Cached fare — the booking search re-prices live before you pay.
Destination briefAMSAmsterdamCanals, Vermeers and bicycles with right of way. KLM’s network makes it a deal-alert regular.Best windowApr–May · SepAirportsSchiphol (AMS)All routes into AmsterdamWhen this route gets cheap.
Best time to be in Amsterdam: Apr–May · Sep. Fare history for this route is still thin, so we make no seasonal call yet.
The cheapest itinerary we are tracking makes one stop and takes about 22.5 hours outbound, on a 11-night trip — ticketed under China Eastern, which on a connecting fare need not operate every leg. At $998 for 16,643 km each way, that works out to about $30 per 1,000 km flown. That is below the $40 typical of ultra-long-haul fares here. That puts it in the cheaper half of the 38 routes of similar length we watch out of Sydney, where the middle fare is $1,340. We have 1 month of cached prices for this route so far — not enough to call a fare cheap or expensive, so we publish the price without a percentage.
The one day we hold a cached fare for
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These are the only days we have a cached price for on this route so far — not the only days it flies. The search above covers any date.
Route facts
- Airports
- Kingsford Smith (SYD) ↔ Schiphol (AMS)
- Flight time
- ~22.5 hours outbound
- Distance
- ~16,643 km each way
- Airlines on the board
- China Eastern
- Itineraries
- Connections on current fares
- Best months to visit
- Apr–May · Sep
SYD → AMS, answered.
How far in advance should I book SYD → Amsterdam?
We do not publish a number for this, because we cannot measure it yet. Answering it honestly means watching the same departure date on this route over many weeks as it approaches, and that archive is still filling up — so any "book N days ahead" figure here would be borrowed from somewhere else rather than measured. See /guides/what-moves-a-flight-price/ for the levers we can measure.
Are there nonstop flights from Sydney to Amsterdam?
The current cheapest fares involve a connection, ticketed under China Eastern. Nonstop options exist on many dates at higher prices — check the live search for your exact dates.
Are these prices guaranteed?
No — these are cached fares found on real searches (this one on August 24). Airlines reprice constantly, so the booking search re-checks the live price before you pay. Fresher finds are far more likely to still be available.
Next step
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