MEL - HOU

$1,474 Find Cheap Flights from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport

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Cheapest return fare
$1,474
Overall average: $1,461
Delta
Wed 18/3Wed 25/3
MEL - HOU • 2 stops
Cheapest one-way flight
$12,903
Typical prices: $855-$861
Multiple Airlines
Tue 17/3
MEL - HOU • 2 stops
Top airlines
Delta
Cheapest • from $1,474 (return)
Air New Zealand
Best reviews • 8.0 score
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When to book
2 weeks
in advance
Our data shows that travellers who book at least 2 weeks in advance save around 19% compared to booking last minute.
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January
Cheapest • 18% price drop
December
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Cheap Flights from Melbourne to Hobby (MEL-HOU)

 
Here are some of the best deals found on KAYAK recently from the most popular airlines for return flights from Melbourne to Hobby that are departing in the next months. While these flights were available on KAYAK in the last 72 hours, prices and availability are subject to change and deals may expire.
Discover the best prices for you by selecting your travel dates on KAYAK.

Recent return flight deals from Melbourne to Hobby

Wed, 18 Mar - Wed, 25 Mar
Delta Logo
09:10 - 10:23
MEL
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HOU
41h 13m
2 stops
Delta Logo
11:33 - 07:00
HOU
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MEL
27h 27m
2 stops
$1,474Delta
Wed, 18 Mar - Wed, 25 Mar
American Airlines Logo
16:05 - 19:50
MEL
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HOU
19h 45m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
10:14 - 05:00
HOU
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MEL
26h 46m
1 stop
$1,479American Airlines
Wed, 18 Mar - Wed, 25 Mar
American Airlines Logo
09:00 - 15:50
MEL
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HOU
22h 50m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
06:00 - 05:00
HOU
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MEL
31h 00m
1 stop
$1,522American Airlines
Tue, 21 Apr - Sun, 10 May
American Airlines Logo
09:45 - 19:51
MEL
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HOU
25h 06m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
20:21 - 05:00
HOU
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MEL
41h 39m
1 stop
$2,063American Airlines
Sat, 2 May - Sat, 16 May
American Airlines Logo
13:35 - 23:47
MEL
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HOU
25h 12m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
16:19 - 05:00
HOU
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MEL
21h 41m
1 stop
$2,198American Airlines
Sat, 2 May - Sat, 16 May
American Airlines Logo
13:35 - 19:51
MEL
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HOU
21h 16m
1 stop
American Airlines Logo
20:21 - 10:35
HOU
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MEL
23h 14m
2 stops
$2,251American Airlines
Fri, 13 Feb - Mon, 16 Feb
American Airlines Logo
12:00 - 19:46
MEL
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HOU
24h 46m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
10:13 - 05:00
HOU
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MEL
25h 47m
1 stop
$2,566American Airlines
Fri, 13 Feb - Mon, 16 Feb
American Airlines Logo
12:00 - 19:46
MEL
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HOU
24h 46m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:18 - 05:00
HOU
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MEL
23h 42m
1 stop
$2,574American Airlines
Fri, 13 Feb - Mon, 16 Feb
American Airlines Logo
12:00 - 19:46
MEL
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HOU
24h 46m
2 stops
American Airlines Logo
12:18 - 09:30
HOU
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MEL
28h 12m
2 stops
$2,596American Airlines
Tue, 24 Feb - Tue, 3 Mar
Qatar Airways Logo
23:40 - 19:50
MEL
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HOU
37h 10m
2 stops
Qatar Airways Logo
12:18 - 17:50
HOU
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MEL
36h 32m
2 stops
$3,452Qatar Airways
Booking Insights

KAYAK's insights & trends for Melbourne to Hobby flights

Get data-powered insights and trends into flights from Melbourne to Hobby to help you find the cheapest flights, the best time to fly and much more.

What is the cheapest month to fly from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport?

To calculate monthly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each month over the last year for round-trip flights from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the median of all values for each month.

The cheapest month for flights from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport is January, where tickets cost $1,444 (return) on average. On the other hand, the most expensive months are December and July, where the average cost of round-trip tickets is $2,185 and $2,132 respectively.

How far in advance should I book a flight from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport?

To calculate weekly average prices, KAYAK takes all prices for each week before departure over the last year for round-trip flights from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport, removes the top 0.1% to account for outliers, and then takes the average of all the values for each week.

To get a below average price on the flight from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport, you should book around 2 weeks before departure, which saves you about 19% compared to booking last minute. For the absolute cheapest price, our data suggests you should book 22 weeks before departure.

Good to know

Low seasonFebruary
Cheapest flight$1,474
Best time to beat the crowds (11% less expensive on average)
Most popular time to fly (24% more expensive on average)
Flight from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport

When to book flights from Melbourne to Hobby

Are your dates flexible? Find out the best times to travel from Melbourne to Hobby based on our flight data from the last year. Discover the cheapest month and even day to fly.
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FAQs for booking Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport flights

  • What is the cheapest flight from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport?

    In the last 3 days, the lowest price for a flight from Melbourne Airport to Houston Hobby Airport was $12,903 for a one-way ticket and $1,474 for a return.

  • Which aircraft models fly most regularly from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport?

    We unfortunately don’t have that data for this specific route.

  • Which airline alliances offer flights from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport?

    oneworld, and Star Alliance are the airline alliances operating flights between Melbourne and Houston Hobby Airport, with oneworld being the most commonly used for this route.

  • Which is the best airline for flights from Melbourne to Houston, Air New Zealand or Virgin Australia?

    The two airlines most popular with KAYAK users for flights from Melbourne to Houston are Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia. With an average price for the route of $1,619 and an overall rating of 8.0, Air New Zealand is the most popular choice. Virgin Australia is also a great choice for the route, with an average price of $2,480 and an overall rating of 7.6.

  • How does KAYAK find such low prices on flights from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport?

    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 Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport.

  • How does KAYAK's flight Price Forecast tool help me choose the right time to buy my flight ticket from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport?

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

  • What is the Hacker Fare option on flights from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport?

    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 Houston Hobby Airport with an airline and back to Melbourne with another airline.

  • What is KAYAK's "flexible dates" feature and why should I care when looking for a flight from Melbourne to Houston Hobby Airport?

    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 Houston Hobby Airport from Melbourne up to 3 days before/after your preferred dates. You can then pick the flights that suit you best.

Reviews of the top 5 airlines flying from Melbourne to Hobby

 
See real verified KAYAK customer reviews for airlines flying from Melbourne to Houston. Airline scores are aggregated from all reviews left by passengers on KAYAK after flying with an airline. KAYAK doesn’t show reviews that are older than 5 years. Learn how KAYAK collects reviews.
Need help choosing which airline to fly with from Melbourne to Hobby? 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.
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Air New ZealandOverall score based on 577 reviews
8.0Comfort
8.2Boarding
7.4Food
8.5Crew
7.4Entertainment
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Air New Zealand over sold our flight and tried to bump us to yesterday. After several calls we got booked to United about 6 hrs before our original flight. No apologies!

2.0 MediocreAnonymous, Jan 2026
AKL - LAX
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Air New Zealand over sold our flight and tried to bump us to yesterday. After several calls we got booked to United about 6 hrs before our original flight. No apologies!

Very quick flight so no time for refreshments. We took off. Then landed. The end. Seats were too tight. Very cramped Grateful for the short flight cos moving around wasn’t possible

Please add more Bollywood movies and recent movies to the entertainment.

I was not even on that flight and did not even book a ticket. Kayak did a phenomenal job

The food was not as good as Air New Zealand. The veg pasta was pass-able but the veg cibotta sandwich was dry, hard and not up to par. The coach staff were attentive and accommodating.

Air conditioning was turned to the wrong setting. Way too hot. The entertainment system kept resetting and didn’t work half the flight. Said something to the crew. They didn’t do anything to help. Plane had a mechanical problem that resulted in 2.5 hour delay. Boarded the plane, had to disembark and get back on.

Flight was delayed by 2 hours. Got lucky that i had a long connection, else would have certainly missed my connecting flight. Food is just okay, specially the breakfast is worse . Asked for water 30 mins before landing, the response is that we are landing so everything is packed . I guess traveling in economy that’s what we get. Probably business class passengers would get a different answer. Only good thing is that wifi service is available from auckland to lax for most part Next time will try united or American and then compare.

I was trying to get confirmation on if my luggage was going to be moved to the earlier flight (I requested standby to get home earlier) and was unable to get help from those working at the counter. The request to be moved to an earlier flight was handled smoothly through the app and appreciate the ease of the request.

Do the bumpy weather the whole trip they were very few times when the seatbelt sign wasn't on

Great except paying $240 usd for 2 pounds over on a checked luggage. Outrageous.

Our 6.30am flight was boarded then cancelled to fly at 10.55am . We were flying to Brisbane to attend a funeral at 12 noon an hour away . This means missing the funeral due to unreliability of Virgin . Unimpressed !!

It was with Link Airways and the Saab 340 jet was noisy and little comfort.

They didn’t sent my luggage I got it 24 hours later

Plane was late and they wouldn’t check our bags through to Tokyo

Overall experience was good but what really impressed me the most was the care the flight attendants took of a sick passenger who was sitting in front of me. The flight attendants would come and check on her quite regularly providing her support and comfort. Brilliant service!

Only answered OK and poor as there was no entertainment and I didnt have any food

4.5 hr international flight. We got a glass of water. Ranks up there with Ryan Air, Easy Jet, Spirit and Frontier. Expected better.

Gluten free options less explicit on business class, but great service

Very good… seems the virgin staff particularly in the lounge and in flight exceeded expectations.

I liked everything about the experience but would have liked some free snacks!

Hard to move and get out of my seat when the passenger in front is in recline position.

Flight was 2.5 hours late leaving. We spent 50 minutes of that sitting on the plane with no explanation. They did reduce the time in the air so we arrived a little less late which was something. The cheese and crackers were okay but the wine was terrible.

Basic airline, aircraft and service. AA gets you from point A to B. My flight was delayed by 2 hours too.

Not great. The inflight entertainment was all on an app, and I did not want to watch a film on my phone. Also, the range of options of films was limited.

My flight from Dallas to Sydney was cancelled. My entire trip was rerouted to include the following: Hartford to Washington DC Washington DC to JFK JFK to Auckland Auckland to Christchurch I paid for an aisle seat on the flight to Auckland and was asked if I would take a window seat to accommodate a family. The agent at the podium failed to mention that the family had a 3 month old baby and that a bassinet would be used during the 16 hour flight. The only way I could get out of my seat was to crawl under the bassinet of the sleeping baby. I think it is wrong that I was no given the choice to sit in another seat, that the agent knew what she was doing and chose to not properly disclose my seating arrangement. Terrible treatment.

they ran out of fruit for breakfast and so I just had a yogurt instead. other than that the flight was good

Poor! This flight was delayed 14 hours. There was no assistance in helping customers find other routes to their destination, nor any other kind of support. It was a chaotic experience. I'm not likely to fly with AA going forward.

We were upgraded and after just a short delay in attending to a safety check we were on our way. Would definately fly Qantas International on their Dreamliner again.

I tried to check in online but was unable to do so. I stood in line for nearly two hours to check in. American Airlines was understaffed. When I finally got to the kiosk to check in, I was still unable to check in. No AA staff was available to help. Finally one of the airport security agents who was helping passengers became of lack of AA Staff told me: “I think the reason you can’t check in is that you are starting your name with an upper case letter when you write it. Just write it with all lower case letters.” That did allow me to check in. HOW COULD ANYONE POSSIBLY KNOW THAT IF THEY USE AN INITIAL UPPER CASE LETTER TO SPELL THEIR OWN NAME, AA WOULD NOT ALLOW THEM TO CHECK IN?????? Then I had to wait in line over half an hour again to drop off my baggage. Although I arrived at the airport 3 hours early, by the time I got to the gate, they had already started boarding.

Traditional economy class. Not a full flight so spare seats. Food and drinks were good

Delayed, toilets did not flush, pilot parked to far away from Gate

Check-in, boarding and the flight from Phoenix to Houston was quick and easy. The flight from Houston to Shreveport was delayed 5 hours. It was frustrating but I think United handled it the best they could.

The staff was hospitable and professional. The seat had a bit of wear. The winner shade was stuck 1/4 open. I received the best of both worlds. The morning sun was able to come in and blind the screen i was trying to use while at the same time it was too low to look out and enjoy the view. Rather embarrassing for a 1st class ticket.

In Liberia airport 5 min before our departure the airport was closed for takeoff for 30 min. Upon arrival to IAH we didn’t have any available gate and waited taxing another 40 min. As a result we arrived for 1+ h later. The walkway to the passport control in IAH is about 1-2 ml long. After the passport control you have to pass the security check again. Only 3 out of 16 checkpoints were open and the line was enormously long. As a result, even though we supposed to have 2.5 hrs gap in between the flights we missed our transfer. United rebooked us for the next available flight early morning and provided free hotel and meal vouchers through.

United is an incompetent airline. They parked the plane on the tarmac for an hour after arriving because they “didn’t have a gate available” it was actually some sort of lie because as we de planed there were approximately 9 open and manned and empty gates that we walked past. Many people on the flight missed connections for the hour long sit on the tarmac. Utterly baffling and incompetent behavior from United flight ops.

I boarded flight UA#1318 at Sacramento International Airport going back to Houston TX. The flight was scheduled at 5:10am. I was able to check in virtually using the United Airlines app. When I entered the airport, there was no one outside assisting with checked bags as it was for Delta Airlines. Immediately upon entering, there was a LONG, EXTREMELY LONG line to the kiosks to get boarding passes. I stand in line to get boarding passes then had to move to ANOTHER EXTREMELY LONG line to get my bags checked in. While standing in this line, we noticed an agent taking customers to 3 at a time to her station to check their bags in. Lucky for me, she called me back, checked my bags for me and I was on my way. I then encountered another long line at the TSA check and to avoid I ending up having to sign up for CLEAR to bypass it. So glad, I did.,...Both of my flights were great with no issues, butthe check in progress at Bush Airport was so much smoother. Check-in at SMF airport needs to be anaylzed and corrected. Do better United, I know you can....thanks

everything was pretty good. Houston airport is awful. Unnecessarily inefficient; people working there are rude. Badly run

Staff on board was excellent. Positive upbeat helpful- like it used to be.

The Sears in the 800s are not too good perfect Airbus why cant the new 737 fix that

Ot was overall fine. Left on time and had basic snacks. Weather was finicky but that’s not the airlines fault.

Air Canada’s problems are not staff related by and large, no. The problem is tiny jets between the U.S. and Canada - yes, believe it or not they are still “international” (just ask our own Mango Maniac in power in the U.S.). The little aisle is compounded by a design flaw of a “dog leg” starting at seat 12. Woe be unto you if you sit here as passengers and attendants do not have sufficient room to not hit you in the face with backpacks. One thing I will say very positively about Air Canada is you still provide pillows and blankets on transcontinental flights to all, not just the elites. Your tiny improperly designed jets are also a problem flying city to city within Canada also. One can only say you remind us of a “Jet Blue” or “Spirit” experience. Also your luggage space is downright Byzantine! We will endeavor to avoid you and use other U.S. carriers, albeit charging more.

Terrible canceled flight and lost my luggage. Flew me to Halifax. Tgat flight was delayed, had to spend night in airport chair.

Better entertainment & food options more may be adding chicken option or on vegetarian side good quality pasta

My seat was not comfortable. Flight was smooth. Regretfully we had two delays before takeoff

Amazing service, with enthusiastic crew members, and some breathtaking views of Vancouver. No IFE though, as it is only a 1 hour flight on a regional Turboprop jet.

They are very proactive and made our boarding easy and always notified us about any changes well in advance.

My seat was covered in vomit and I will be reaching out to Air Canada

It's kindof ridiculous that your system is even asking me about this since my flight was canceled and I wasn't rescheduled.

3 hr delay at the gate while they were doing maintenance. Next time, do not board passengers while maintenance is being performed

Digital check in is very poor with air canada compaired to other airlines

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