EGCC · MAN · Manchester, England
Planes near MAN: live flight tracking at Manchester Airport
Manchester Airport (MAN / EGCC) serves Manchester, England, United Kingdom. The main northern English field, with the Pennines rising immediately east.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Manchester. 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 MAN, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:50 UTC | Arrival | EXS15QY | A21N · G-SUNJ |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | EXS12DR | B738 · G-JZHT |
| 02:41 UTC | Arrival | EXS7GT | A332 · G-VYGM |
| 02:34 UTC | Arrival | EXS42YS | A21N · G-SUNZ |
| 02:25 UTC | Arrival | TOM1XC | B738 · G-TAWU |
| 02:22 UTC | Arrival | EXS4SL | A21N · G-SUNC |
6 movements 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 MAN. 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 19 aircraft
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EXS87ETA321 · G-HLYB | LGKY | 1,900 ft | 145 kt | 5 nmNE of the field |
| EXS9QSA21N · G-HLYI | LarnacaLCLK / LCA | 3,875 ft | 229 kt | 13 nmENE of the field |
| EXS9QFA21N · G-SUND | Gran Canaria IslandGCLP / LPA | 19,425 ft | 454 kt | 48 nmSW of the field |
| EXS8UMB738 · G-JZDH | CataniaLICC / CTA | 25,425 ft | 418 kt | 64 nmSE of the field |
| EXS8NFA21N · G-HLYN | BurgasLBBG / BOJ | 34,050 ft | 390 kt | 106 nmSE of the field |
| EXS37LVB738 · G-JZHW | Palma de MallorcaLEPA / PMI | 36,000 ft | 475 kt | 209 nmS of the field |
| TOM9VEB38M · G-TUMB | LarnacaLCLK / LCA | 38,000 ft | 407 kt | 233 nmESE of the field |
| EZY64CAA21N · G-ZXIE | AntalyaLTAI / AYT | 36,000 ft | 410 kt | 266 nmESE of the field |
| EZY18YQA320 · G-EZWA | Kerkyra (Corfu)LGKR / CFU | 36,000 ft | 402 kt | 347 nmSE of the field |
| QTR6TB77W · A7-BEC | DohaOTHH / DOH | 34,000 ft | 490 kt | 849 nmESE of the field |
| ETH726A359 · ET-ATY | Marignane, Bouches-du-RhLFML / MRS | 40,000 ft | 451 kt | 938 nmSE of the field |
| ETD49DB78X · A6-BMC | Abu DhabiOMAA / AUH | 36,000 ft | 445 kt | 1,289 nmESE of the field |
| UAE1KMA388 · A6-EUD | DubaiOMDB / DXB | 38,000 ft | 445 kt | 1,462 nmESE of the field |
| CPA259A359 · B-LRG | Hong KongVHHH / HKG | 40,000 ft | 462 kt | 1,879 nmE of the field |
| SIA302A359 · 9V-SMD | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 40,000 ft | 441 kt | 1,989 nmE of the field |
| IGO49FB789 · LN-FND | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 35,975 ft | 501 kt | 2,966 nmESE of the field |
| VIR74WA35K · G-VLIB | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 39,000 ft | 543 kt | 3,190 nmWNW of the field |
| VIR86A35K · G-VEVE | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | 37,000 ft | 532 kt | 3,450 nmNW of the field |
| VIR76XA333 · G-VWAG | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 5,075 ft | 283 kt | 3,664 nmW of the field |
Outbound 3 aircraft
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| THY7QNB739 · TC-JYP | IstanbulLTFM / IST | 15,775 ft | 300 kt | 1,399 nmESE of the field |
| UAE20A388 · A6-EVA | DubaiOMDB / DXB | 39,000 ft | 490 kt | 2,843 nmESE of the field |
| ETD2NPB789 · A6-BLT | Abu DhabiOMAA / AUH | 38,975 ft | 494 kt | 3,049 nmESE of the field |
About Manchester Airport
- ICAO codeEGCC
- IATA codeMAN
- ServesManchester
- RegionEngland, United Kingdom
- Coordinates53.349°N, 2.280°W
Manchester sits south of the city, with the Pennine hills rising to the east and the Irish Sea a short distance west. It is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom outside the London group, and it carries a wide mixture of short-haul European services, holiday charter traffic and a smaller long-haul programme.
Transatlantic traffic passes overhead constantly on its way to and from Ireland and the ocean. On a wide view, the high westbound stream in the late morning is one of the more obvious patterns in European skies.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
MAN 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.
EGCC is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, EG, marks
the United Kingdom, 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 Manchester 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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