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Find cheap flights from Sydney to Borneo from $339

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Kota Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu1 stop$596
Kuching
Kuching1 stop$581
Balikpapan
Balikpapan1 stop$709
Tawau
Tawau1 stop$722

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Low season

April

High season

February

Cheapest flight

$339
Best time to beat the crowds (17% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly and prices are also 15% lower on average.
Flight from Sydney to Kota Kinabalu

FAQs - booking Borneo flights

  • What visa do Australians require to visit Borneo?

    The great news is that if you are travelling to the Malaysian part of Borneo, you can stay without a visa for 90 days. If you wish to visit Brunei or Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), however, you will need a visa. You will need to obtain your visa from the Embassy of Brunei at least a week before your departure, whereas Indonesian visas can be applied for online and are generally granted in less than five days.

  • Which terminal at Sydney Airport handles flights to Borneo?

    All international flights depart Kingsford Smith International Airport (SYD) through Terminal 1 regardless of which airline you choose to fly with. If you are travelling to Sydney from another city in Australia to catch your flight, you will need to transfer from one of the two domestic terminals. There is a shuttle service connecting all three terminals on a 24-hour basis.

  • Which airports can I fly to in Borneo from Sydney?

    While there are no direct flights between Sydney and Borneo, there are several smooth connections via Kuala Lumpur or other hubs to Kuching Airport and Kota Kinabalu International Airport. If you wish to fly to one of the many domestic airports in Borneo, such as Sabah (SBV), Sandakan (SDK) or Tawau (TWU), there are several daily services either direct from Kuala Lumpur or via Kuching or Kota Kinabalu.

  • Which airport in Borneo should I fly to if I want to visit Bako National Park?

    Kuching International Airport is a wise choice if you intend to visit Bako National Park or Semenggoh Nature Reserve, which is a famous orangutan sanctuary. Kuching is located right at the edge of Sarawak's most beautiful natural areas, and both Bako National Park and the nearby Semenggoh Nature Reserve are located less than an hour's drive away from the airport.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Sydney to Borneo?

    KAYAK is a travel search engine. That means we look across the web to find the best prices we can find for our users. With over 2 billion flight queries processed yearly, we are able to display a variety of prices and options on flights from Sydney to Borneo.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Sydney to Borneo?

    KAYAK’s flight Price Forecast tool uses historical data to determine whether the price for a flight to Borneo from Sydney is likely to change within 7 days, so travelers know whether to wait or book now.

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Sydney to Borneo?

    Hacker Fares allow you to combine one-way tickets in order to save you money over a traditional return ticket. You could then fly to Borneo with an airline and back to Sydney with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Sydney to Borneo?

    Sometimes travel dates aren't set in stone. If your preferred travel dates have some wiggle room, flexible dates will show you all the options when flying to Borneo from Sydney up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

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Top tips for finding cheap flights to Borneo

  • If you are flying from Sydney to either Kuching or Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Airlines offers fast and frequent flights. Although these involve a layover in Kuala Lumpur, the average wait at the airport is only 2 to 3 hours.
  • If you would like to take a cheaper domestic service from inside Malaysia, you can fly from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur, then transfer to the domestic terminal where there are a number of budget options to fly to both the international airports and to several smaller domestic airports across Borneo.
  • If you are flying to destinations in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo, Garuda offers frequent flights to Balikpapan via Jakarta. If you have further plans to visit Malaysian Borneo or Brunei, there are flights available, but they will involve stops in Kuala Lumpur or another hub en route depending on the airline.
  • Kota Kinabalu International Airport (BKI) is one of the busiest airports in Malaysia. Kuching Airport (KCH) is also a busy, modern airport but has a reputation for being a bit more relaxed and pleasant.
  • If you fly to Kuching, be aware that the state of Sarawak has customs autonomy and you will need to pass through customs even if you have already formally entered Malaysia on another flight or want to take a further domestic flight within Malaysia.
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Top 4 airlines serving from Sydney to Borneo

Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Sydney to Borneo? KAYAK airline reviews give an overall score for each airline based on loads of factors, including comfort, boarding, in-flight entertainment and more, to make your decision easier. See airline scores according to verified KAYAK customer reviews.
8.2
Singapore AirlinesOverall score based on 1419 reviews
8.4Boarding
7.8Food
8.7Crew
8.1Comfort
8.1Entertainment
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My overall experience with Singapore Airlines is great. Will definitely fly Singapore airline again.

8.0 ExcellentAnonymous, Apr 2024SIN - JFK
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My overall experience with Singapore Airlines is great. Will definitely fly Singapore airline again.

Good flight. The food was served a bit late, hence a hurry to finish before landing. Excellent crew and service

Cabin Crew always friendly and helpful. Seating cramped - foul smelling from toilets, high risk of disease. Guard personal property such as expensive sunglasses Coffee always awful and cold Meal trays toddler sized Not worth the extra cost to fly SQ - use a budget airline, same if not better experience

Seating cramped; close to toilet, foul smelling and noisy, very unhygienic and disease risk Free and paid Wi-Fi NOT accessible at all - misleading advertising Very expensive sunglasses disappeared from back seat pouch. Coffee disgusting and cold

When boarding, after business class should be premium economy, but economy class already lined-up at the gate blocking premium economy to board. Singapore airline crew should done a better job to organize this chaos :( Thank you.

Wonderful service, planes and interior in great condition, very pleasant experience

Every thing was fine. Some ild classical Hindi movies should be add

The premium economy seats were not that great. It could have been more premium than economy seats.

People were so nice! Economy seats were small and cramped feeling for me. I’m slender and 6 feet tall

Flying with Singapore airlines is always excelllent - the crew are lovely and the food too is great. It’s my number 1 airline

Good, ontime performance...hard products is somewhat out of date

Food quality can be improved for the price of the ticket.

On air services are excellent. The Garuda Lounge at Terminal 3 Soekarno-Hatta International Airport need to have special management attention in cleanliness and the service quality.

I hopefully cancelled this flight and will get a refund. I am disappointed that you did not stop alerts about this flight and seem to think we went on it. It doesn't seem like your company communicates well internally. Also from my end, I hope you have some clout to resolve things. That has to be part of the package you offer. Thank You, William Ashley

At CGK, need to walk from one gate all the way to the other gate to board the plane. Which makes me wonder, why can’t we just gather at the correct gate in the first place?

Pros: "Comfortable seats"
Cons: "Cabin was very warm for a long time. Boarding could be more organized. Food - fish for main fish and tuna salad. I like fish, but really?"
Pros: "The seat was comfortable enough."
Cons: "Boarding is disorganized. Food wasn’t heated properly so the fish just had coagulated oil coating it."
Pros: "Departure and arrival on time. Pleasant, attractive and efficient crew. Decent choice of entertainment for domestic flight. Baggage delivered after only 15 minutes of arrival at baggage belt. Overall great!"
Cons: "Passengers push from the back to leave the aircraft and don't like to allow you to enter the exit line so you also have to push your way in. Very rude and sad most travelers are so impolite."
Pros: "Crew is professional"
Cons: "The interior in the air craft need seriously to be refreshed."
Pros: "The plane was 3 +3 so it was small. The flight crew were sweet."
Cons: "The movies were limited,. There was no vegetarian option, only meat. The food was pretty basic and pretty bland."

Ok, but legspace on MH0127 from Kul to Per was too small. It was not possible to tilt my seat which I don't understand because the seat in front of my could do it. So I didn't rest on the flight. Also, the crew was probably understaffed because it took very long time to take trash after the meal. Everything very different from the flight with Malaysian Airlines from London to KL.

Service / food has to be much better. Staff were not very attentive to requests. Requested for a second serve of coke and got a weird look back from the host! Was also told they don’t have extra water bottles when I requested for one before sleep! Dinner time food was very minimum and average.

chaos boarding. Crew in business class seemed short staffed and lacking in attention to details initially, but did improve during flight.

The cabin was quite noisy as there were lots of children travelling for the school holidays. Found the selection of movies limited.

Delayed, not enough information. Had to ask for refreshments, crew could have been more proactive

The best so far coz this time it was all male steward on the economy cluster. They were polite, efficient & genuinely courteous. They do not judge you when you ask for more food & peanuts.

Delayed for 45 minutes. Don't know what's the issue. Other than that, food was not to my satisfaction. However it's okay.

My first course flight (Aor-Kul) was cancelled in the morning, and they asked me to board the night flight hence I need to transit overnight for the 2nd flight (Kul-Myy) that supposed to be on the same day. The overnight stay was not provided, (I'm traveling with my spouse, a daughter (5 y.o.) and an infant (2 months old). Hence I booked Sama Sama Hotel at my own expense (fortunately using my enrich miles points). Other than this issue, all services is good.

My experience with the flight was okay. My experience checking in was absolutely terrible. I was told I needed to change my e-ticket number to check in because I missed my flight in PDX. Even when shown the itinerary, they didn't budge and sent me to KLM across the airport. KLM wasn't open until 8pm and my flight was at 7:30pm. Nobody made accommodations in any way to get me to KUL. To add insult to injury, they rescheduled my flight to the very next day, creating a very long layover and did not offer any hotel stay. After this, even worse, I found out later they delayed the first 7:30pm flight to 9:10pm. Meaning, I could have still boarded but they refused to even try to get me on the plane. As a result, I missed a day of work and lost pay for the day. Also, when I went to get my luggage, it wasn't there. It was STILL in Singapore. They had from 5:30pm to 5am to get my luggage onto the plane and they still couldn't get that right. This is the worst experience I've had flying anywhere in the past decade I've been travelling.

Orange juice change to mineral water . Should keep the orange juice.

WiFi didn’t work on both sectors so made killing time harder - planes clean modern and good flight crew - would do again if WiFi works

6hrs fly they dont give you a glass of water from seoul to singapore need to buy drink and food plus they charge for bag on international fly is always Free 1 bag from seoul to singapore is Not a local fly you are traveling true asia same story from singapore to Bali no water drink after payment for bag drink cost more the regular airline Well never use this company again we use regular company like Delta korea japan China and even scoot parent company Singapore Air

We had 2 attempts to land at Singapore Changing during a thunderstorm. Everything was delayed by 1 hour plus.

Boarding was not accordingly after front seat, bmf then back seat. This delayed for at least 40mins or more. The staff at Jakarta can do better. Is chaos at the entry to board the plane. This tarnished Scoot reputation when everyone was talking about it.

The crew was not customer oriented at all, even confrontational . The aircraft needs more attention to detail as far as comfort, and the 1 hour sitting at the gate with no air is inexcusable

We flew on the 787 Dreamliner direct to main gate at KLIA2, quick entry via eGate and on the train 41mins after touchdown. Go well SCOOT

Was on scoot plus. The only good thing about the flight was the spacious seats. Tables and armrests were extremely dirty Food: bad Entertainment: non existent Wifi: unable to connect, then was painfully slow that we couldn’t even send messages Good thing we had a night flight, so we just slept throughout.

Not clear why boarding passes could only be issued at the counter and not through the kiosk. I had already check-in on the web, so waiting to obtain a boarding pass 1.5 hours before the actual flight defeats the purpose of early web check-in.

no charging point. food offering is limited and very much on the budget line. Overall is not satisfying for such a price and duration of flight.

We were delayed, but there was never any update given. Everyone was standing at the gate as boarding was supposed to commence at 13:10 for a 13:55 flight. We didn't actually start getting on the shuttles to the plane, until after 14:00. No updates, no information given at all.

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Recent return flight deals

18/8Sun
1 stop
10h 50mSYD-KCH
8/9Sun
1 stop
14h 10mKCH-SYD
$581
14/8Wed
1 stopScoot
24h 30mSYD-BKI
30/8Fri
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20h 10mBKI-SYD
$596
14/8Wed
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30h 00mSYD-BKI
29/8Thu
1 stopChina Eastern
29h 30mBKI-SYD
$962
5/7Fri
1 stopChina Eastern
30h 00mSYD-BKI
11/7Thu
1 stopChina Eastern
33h 05mBKI-SYD
$970
2/7Tue
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24h 15mSYD-BKI
8/7Mon
1 stopMalaysia Airlines
12h 55mBKI-SYD
$1,179
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2 stopsSingapore Airlines
25h 20mSYD-BPN
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2 stopsSingapore Airlines
22h 20mBPN-SYD
$1,213
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24h 05mSYD-BPN
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$1,246
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35h 20mSYD-TWU
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13h 45mTWU-SYD
$1,273
7/8Wed
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27h 45mSYD-BPN
9/8Fri
2 stopsGaruda Indonesia
16h 35mBPN-SYD
$1,377
23/7Tue
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25h 00mSYD-BPN
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Sydney - Borneo Flights

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Sydney (SYD)Australia

Return flight deals:

Borneo - Sydney

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