CYUL · YUL · Montréal, Quebec
Planes near YUL: live flight tracking at Montreal-Trudeau International
Montreal-Trudeau International (YUL / CYUL) serves Montréal, Quebec, Canada. An island city field with heavy transatlantic traffic and severe winters.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Montréal. The frame is fixed on the field; tap or click an aircraft to open its full details.
Nothing here is filtered. Military aircraft, aircraft in the FAA's LADD privacy programme and aircraft using temporary addresses all appear the same way anything else does. Open the full map to pan, zoom and switch layers.
Movements we watched happen
Snapshot written . This page refreshes by itself while it is open.
These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at YUL, each with the time it was seen. Nothing here is guessed from a timetable.
Why there may be fewer departures than arrivals
A departure is only counted once a receiver has seen the aircraft on the ground here first. That guard stops us inventing takeoffs for aircraft that merely flew overhead, and it costs us real ones: hearing an aircraft sitting on an airport surface needs a receiver with line of sight to that surface, which is the hardest reception there is. An arrival only needs the aircraft to have been seen airborne, and airborne coverage is very good.
So at any airport without a clear view of the ground, this list will show fewer departures than actually happened. If you see more arrivals than departures below, read that as a fact about where the antennas are, not about the airport.
| Time | Movement | Flight | Aircraft |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:44 UTC | Arrival | ACA1099 | B38M · C-GMIW |
1 movement in the current recording window.
What appears to be inbound and outbound right now
Where the aircraft in range right now are most likely heading, worked out from their callsigns rather than watched happening.
How this list is built
We take the aircraft the receiver network can currently hear, read the callsign each one is broadcasting, and look that callsign up in an index of the routes it has actually flown before. An entry means this callsign's most commonly observed route ends at YUL. That is a good guide to where a flight is going. It is not a flight plan: nobody has told us today's routing, and we would rather say that than dress an inference up as a schedule.
The consequences are worth knowing. A diversion or an unusual routing will be listed wrong. A charter, a positioning leg, or any flight the index has not seen before is missing entirely. You will occasionally see an aircraft here sitting on the ground on the far side of a continent, which is the method showing its working rather than hiding it. There are no scheduled times or arrival estimates on this page because neither can be computed honestly from what we hold.
For gates, delays and cancellations the airline and the airport are authoritative. This page is for what is actually in the air.
Inbound 12 aircraft
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WJA566B38M · C-GPFT | CalgaryCYYC / YYC | 1,375 ft | 162 kt | 5 nmNE of the field |
| PVL8331DH8D · C-GPNE | QuebecCYQB / YQB | 7,875 ft | 251 kt | 26 nmNE of the field |
| BAW6NCB789 · G-ZBKO | LondonEGLL / LHR | 11,825 ft | 288 kt | 41 nmENE of the field |
| EDV5489CRJ7 · N398CA | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 35,000 ft | 468 kt | 242 nmWSW of the field |
| EDV5136CRJ9 · N905XJ | DetroitKDTW / DTW | 33,000 ft | 463 kt | 318 nmWSW of the field |
| ASP877CL60 · C-FSJR | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 41,000 ft | 571 kt | 491 nmENE of the field |
| ROU1611A321 · C-GKFA | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 35,000 ft | 522 kt | 503 nmSSW of the field |
| ACA312BCS3 · C-FHXN | VancouverCYVR / YVR | 37,000 ft | 496 kt | 522 nmWNW of the field |
| JIA5137N634NN | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | on the ground | 0 kt | 697 nmSSW of the field |
| DAL2416A321 · N337DN | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 29,000 ft | 465 kt | 712 nmSW of the field |
| ACA338BCS3 · C-GWUS | EdmontonCYEG / YEG | 39,000 ft | 489 kt | 757 nmWNW of the field |
| RJA272B789 · JY-RBC | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 37,000 ft | 553 kt | 4,174 nmENE of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 40
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACA7053A320 · C-FKOJ | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 3,950 ft | 226 kt | 11 nmE of the field |
| AFR349A359 · F-HTYG | Paris (Roissy-en-France,LFPG / CDG | 14,500 ft | 349 kt | 18 nmSE of the field |
| ACA429A321 · C-GIUB | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 17,475 ft | 355 kt | 39 nmW of the field |
| ACA922B789 · C-FNOH | Spata-ArtemidaLGAV / ATH | 16,325 ft | 491 kt | 50 nmE of the field |
| ACA900B788 · C-GHPX | AmsterdamEHAM / AMS | 24,875 ft | 508 kt | 57 nmNE of the field |
| PVL7777DH8D · C-GPGH | OttawaCYOW / YOW | 1,875 ft | 166 kt | 76 nmW of the field |
| TSC728A321 · C-GEZX | LondonEGKK / LGW | 21,175 ft | 477 kt | 76 nmNE of the field |
| ACA916B789 · C-FRSE | DublinEIDW / DUB | 30,775 ft | 555 kt | 106 nmNE of the field |
| TSC516A21N · C-GOIX | BordeauxLFBD / BOD | 31,150 ft | 537 kt | 155 nmNE of the field |
| ACA812A333 · C-GHKX | LisbonLPPT / LIS | 37,000 ft | 526 kt | 219 nmE of the field |
| AFR347FB77W · F-GZNL | Paris (Roissy-en-France,LFPG / CDG | 35,000 ft | 518 kt | 244 nmESE of the field |
| ROU2050A319 · C-FYJP | HalifaxCYHZ / YHZ | 37,000 ft | 528 kt | 276 nmE of the field |
| EDV5449CRJ9 · N538CA | New YorkKLGA / LGA | on the ground | 0 kt | 282 nmS of the field |
| ACA904B789 · C-FGDT | RomeLIRF / FCO | 37,425 ft | 576 kt | 356 nmE of the field |
| QTR53WA35K · A7-AOB | DohaOTHH / DOH | 35,000 ft | 585 kt | 357 nmENE of the field |
| ROU2040A321 · C-FJQH | MonctonCYQM / YQM | 1,600 ft | 158 kt | 385 nmE of the field |
| ACA926A21N · C-GXAN | NantesLFRS / NTE | 33,000 ft | 546 kt | 431 nmE of the field |
| ACA870B77W · C-FJZS | Paris (Roissy-en-France,LFPG / CDG | 35,000 ft | 571 kt | 448 nmE of the field |
| ACA995B38M · C-FSKZ | Mexico CityMMMX / MEX | 34,000 ft | 446 kt | 484 nmWSW of the field |
| TSC110A333 · C-GUBO | Paris (Roissy-en-France,LFPG / CDG | 37,000 ft | 559 kt | 492 nmENE of the field |
About Montreal-Trudeau International
- ICAO codeCYUL
- IATA codeYUL
- ServesMontréal
- RegionQuebec, Canada
- Coordinates45.468°N, 73.742°W
Montreal-Trudeau sits on the western part of the island of Montreal, close in to the city. Its position on the eastern side of the continent makes it a natural transatlantic departure point, and a great deal of European traffic crosses this part of Quebec whether or not it is landing here. Winter operations are a serious business at this latitude.
Look northeast for the outbound Atlantic flow. Aircraft leaving eastern North America converge toward the entry points of the North Atlantic track system, and this field sits close enough to watch that convergence happen.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
YUL is the IATA code: three letters, the one printed on a
boarding pass and a baggage tag, assigned for commercial purposes and reused across
the world without any geographic logic.
CYUL is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
letter, C, marks
Canada, because ICAO allocates the code space by region.
The callsigns in the lists above are a third thing again. A callsign is what the crew typed into the transponder for this leg, so it changes flight by flight, while the registration and the 24-bit hex address stay with the airframe. When a callsign and a registration disagree, the registration is usually the more reliable of the two.
How to read the numbers
Altitude is pressure altitude, which is what the aircraft's air data system reads with a standard pressure setting. It is not height above the ground and it is not always the altitude the crew is flying to. Near Montréal that gap is most obvious on approach, when a tracker can show a figure that does not match what is on the flight deck.
Ground speed is speed across the earth, not through the air. A strong tailwind can add a hundred knots or more to it without the aircraft flying any faster, which is why two aircraft at the same level going opposite ways can show wildly different numbers. Track is the direction of travel over the ground, which is not the direction the nose is pointing when there is any crosswind at all.
Aircraft go missing from this map for reasons that have nothing to do with the aircraft. Reception is line of sight, so terrain and distance cut it off abruptly; a good deal of light aviation in the United States broadcasts on 978 MHz rather than 1090 MHz; and plenty of aircraft, including gliders and older light types, carry no ADS-B at all and are not required to. How ADS-B works covers all of that properly.
Other airports on the map
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