CYYZ · YYZ · Toronto, Ontario
Planes near YYZ: live flight tracking at Toronto Pearson International
Toronto Pearson International (YYZ / CYYZ) serves Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Canada’s principal hub, with Lake Ontario shaping the approaches from the south.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Toronto. 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 YYZ, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | RAM211B | B789 · CN-RHA |
| 02:57 UTC | Arrival | ACA1038 | BCS3 · C-GJXW |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | ACA852 | B77L · C-FIUJ |
| 02:54 UTC | Arrival | ENY3456 | E170 · N325DM |
| 02:54 UTC | Departure | ACA642 | B38M · C-FFIQ |
| 02:51 UTC | Arrival | CGPGB | CL30 · C-GPGB |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | ACA260 | A320 · C-GKOD |
| 02:45 UTC | Departure | POE191 | E295 · C-GKXQ |
| 02:44 UTC | Arrival | SWK125R | N312SY |
| 02:41 UTC | Arrival | ROU1702 | A321 · C-FJOU |
| 02:41 UTC | Departure | WJA731 | B738 · C-FPRP |
| 02:40 UTC | Departure | ROU1937 | A321 · C-GJTH |
Showing the most recent 12 of 31 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 YYZ. 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 nearest 20 of 48
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACA1038BCS3 · C-GJXW | DenverKDEN / DEN | on the ground | 14 kt | 1 nmSE of the field |
| ENY3456E170 · N325DM | ChicagoKORD / ORD | on the ground | 10 kt | 1 nmESE of the field |
| ACA742BCS3 · C-GMZR | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmENE of the field |
| AAL2804B738 · N859NN | Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW | 6,875 ft | 236 kt | 4 nmESE of the field |
| CGBBPC172 · C-GBBP | BreslauCYKF / YKF | 1,950 ft | 104 kt | 17 nmWNW of the field |
| HRT239GL5T · C-GJCB | NaplesKAPF / APF | 6,750 ft | 253 kt | 22 nmNE of the field |
| AAL1246A319 · N748UW | MiamiKMIA / MIA | 15,875 ft | 352 kt | 40 nmSE of the field |
| RPA4369E75L · N121HQ | New YorkKLGA / LGA | 21,125 ft | 386 kt | 72 nmSE of the field |
| WJA1039B738 · C-FKWJ | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 24,550 ft | 364 kt | 75 nmS of the field |
| FLE644B38M · C-FLQO | WinnipegCYWG / YWG | 27,400 ft | 414 kt | 87 nmNW of the field |
| PAL118A35K · RP-C3512 | Manila (Pasay)RPLL / MNL | 36,100 ft | 546 kt | 134 nmNW of the field |
| POE608E295 · C-GZQX | New YorkKLGA / LGA | 30,000 ft | 436 kt | 146 nmESE of the field |
| ROU1661A319 · C-FYJG | TampaKTPA / TPA | 33,000 ft | 429 kt | 155 nmSW of the field |
| RPA3515E75L · N785YX | DullesKIAD / IAD | 28,000 ft | 448 kt | 161 nmSSE of the field |
| WJA460B738 · C-GKWA | EdmontonCYEG / YEG | 39,000 ft | 490 kt | 161 nmNW of the field |
| FLE2651B38M · C-FLQZ | KingstonMKJP / KIN | 39,000 ft | 463 kt | 208 nmSSE of the field |
| ACA429A321 · C-GIUB | MontréalCYUL / YUL | 17,475 ft | 355 kt | 236 nmENE of the field |
| ACA7053A320 · C-FKOJ | MontréalCYUL / YUL | 3,950 ft | 226 kt | 284 nmENE of the field |
| ACA174A321 · C-GYFY | EdmontonCYEG / YEG | 37,000 ft | 526 kt | 285 nmNW of the field |
| EDV5188CRJ9 · N330PQ | New YorkKLGA / LGA | -125 ft | 158 kt | 309 nmESE of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 60
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACA842B788 · C-GHPQ | Frankfurt am MainEDDF / FRA | on the ground | 14 kt | 0 nmNNE of the field |
| ROU2064A320 · C-GFCI | HalifaxCYHZ / YHZ | on the ground | 16 kt | 1 nmNNW of the field |
| ACA642B38M · C-FFIQ | Saint JohnCYSJ / YSJ | 9,300 ft | 300 kt | 8 nmS of the field |
| ACA852B77L · C-FIUJ | LondonEGLL / LHR | 5,800 ft | 292 kt | 12 nmSW of the field |
| POE191E295 · C-GKXQ | QuebecCYQB / YQB | 29,600 ft | 479 kt | 61 nmENE of the field |
| WJA731B738 · C-FPRP | VancouverCYVR / YVR | 30,825 ft | 420 kt | 83 nmNNW of the field |
| ROU1937A321 · C-GJTH | SaskatoonCYXE / YXE | 28,000 ft | 409 kt | 90 nmNW of the field |
| POE319E295 · C-GKQT | VancouverCYVR / YVR | 32,000 ft | 396 kt | 105 nmNW of the field |
| ACA856A333 · C-GHKC | LondonEGLL / LHR | 29,375 ft | 516 kt | 131 nmE of the field |
| RPA3559E75L · N747YX | DullesKIAD / IAD | 17,600 ft | 364 kt | 139 nmESE of the field |
| WJA36B38M · C-GRAX | Ingliston, EdinburghEGPH / EDI | 34,675 ft | 491 kt | 151 nmENE of the field |
| THY8LVB77W · TC-JJF | IstanbulLTFM / IST | 33,000 ft | 517 kt | 157 nmE of the field |
| WJA469B737 · C-GWBF | EdmontonCYEG / YEG | 36,000 ft | 400 kt | 158 nmNW of the field |
| ACA90B789 · C-FVNB | São PauloSBGR / GRU | 34,975 ft | 519 kt | 211 nmESE of the field |
| ACA1195B38M · C-FFJF | Thunder BayCYQT / YQT | 38,000 ft | 380 kt | 212 nmNW of the field |
| WJA46B38M · C-GLWS | DublinEIDW / DUB | 35,000 ft | 498 kt | 217 nmENE of the field |
| ACA1142B38M · C-FFNW | QuebecCYQB / YQB | 38,875 ft | 518 kt | 247 nmENE of the field |
| ACA808B788 · C-GHPT | AmsterdamEHAM / AMS | 36,975 ft | 548 kt | 270 nmENE of the field |
| TSC308A333 · C-GTSD | RomeLIRF / FCO | 37,000 ft | 539 kt | 291 nmENE of the field |
| POE367E295 · C-GKZH | CalgaryCYYC / YYC | 38,000 ft | 381 kt | 307 nmNW of the field |
About Toronto Pearson International
- ICAO codeCYYZ
- IATA codeYYZ
- ServesToronto
- RegionOntario, Canada
- Coordinates43.676°N, 79.629°W
Toronto Pearson sits northwest of downtown Toronto with Lake Ontario to the south. Its traffic divides three ways in a manner few airports match: domestic flights across a very wide country, transborder flights into the United States, and long-haul services to Europe and Asia. The mix is visible in the registration prefixes alone.
Billy Bishop, the island airport downtown, sits inside the same view and works completely differently. Comparing the two on one map is a quick lesson in how much an airport's site constrains its traffic.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
YYZ 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.
CYYZ 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 Toronto 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
The nearest fields with their own live page:
