EIDW · DUB · Dublin, Leinster
Planes near DUB: live flight tracking at Dublin Airport
Dublin Airport (DUB / EIDW) serves Dublin, Leinster, Ireland. The last European landfall for a great deal of westbound Atlantic traffic.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Dublin. 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 DUB, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:49 UTC | Arrival | RYR81SV | B738 · EI-DHR |
| 02:29 UTC | Arrival | RYR388W | B38M · EI-IHY |
2 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 DUB. 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 28
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EIN104A333 · EI-EIL | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 25,225 ft | 469 kt | 104 nmWSW of the field |
| EIN13KA333 · EI-FNG | BostonKBOS / BOS | 38,250 ft | 500 kt | 135 nmWSW of the field |
| EIN11PA21N · EI-XLV | DullesKIAD / IAD | 34,000 ft | 479 kt | 156 nmWSW of the field |
| EIN1MNA333 · EI-FNH | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 39,000 ft | 496 kt | 301 nmWNW of the field |
| RYR7HVB738 · SP-RNH | SofiaLBSF / SOF | 20,800 ft | 393 kt | 1,308 nmESE of the field |
| EIN9WMA21N · EI-XLW | IndianapolisKIND / IND | 34,000 ft | 514 kt | 1,704 nmW of the field |
| EIN1XGA21N · EI-LRC | PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL | 33,000 ft | 519 kt | 1,790 nmW of the field |
| WJA42B38M · C-FCTK | HalifaxCYHZ / YHZ | 35,000 ft | 540 kt | 1,901 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL176A333 · N805NW | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 38,000 ft | 576 kt | 1,907 nmWNW of the field |
| EIN9LTA21N · EI-XLR | ClevelandKCLE / CLE | 31,000 ft | 528 kt | 2,000 nmWNW of the field |
| EIN118A21N · EI-XLT | DullesKIAD / IAD | 33,000 ft | 550 kt | 2,115 nmW of the field |
| EIN9HWA21N · EI-XLU | Raleigh/DurhamKRDU / RDU | 33,000 ft | 549 kt | 2,122 nmW of the field |
| DAL44B763 · N1200K | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 35,900 ft | 554 kt | 2,142 nmWNW of the field |
| EIN106A333 · EI-DUZ | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 37,000 ft | 556 kt | 2,199 nmW of the field |
| ACA800B789 · C-FNOG | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 39,000 ft | 576 kt | 2,231 nmWNW of the field |
| EIN12GA333 · EI-GCF | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 38,000 ft | 574 kt | 2,356 nmW of the field |
| AAL722B788 · N874AN | PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL | 40,975 ft | 589 kt | 2,367 nmWNW of the field |
| ACA916B789 · C-FRSE | MontréalCYUL / YUL | 30,775 ft | 555 kt | 2,470 nmWNW of the field |
| WJA46B38M · C-GLWS | TorontoCYYZ / YYZ | 35,000 ft | 498 kt | 2,648 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL292A332 · N851NW | DetroitKDTW / DTW | 35,000 ft | 511 kt | 2,668 nmWNW of the field |
Outbound 2 aircraft
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NYX301SF34 · ES-NSM | RheinmünsterEDSB / FKB | 24,475 ft | 207 kt | 404 nmESE of the field |
| AEE631A21N · SX-NAC | Spata-ArtemidaLGAV / ATH | 13,150 ft | 331 kt | 1,545 nmESE of the field |
About Dublin Airport
- ICAO codeEIDW
- IATA codeDUB
- ServesDublin
- RegionLeinster, Ireland
- Coordinates53.429°N, 6.262°W
Dublin sits north of the city near the coast, on the eastern side of Ireland. Its geography gives it an outsized role: aircraft crossing the Atlantic westbound leave organised European airspace around here, and eastbound arrivals rejoin it in the same place. That makes the airspace above this field busier than the airport itself would explain.
This is the best place on the site to watch the North Atlantic track system in operation. Set the map wide to the west and you will see aircraft converging into a small number of entry points before their positions stop arriving.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
DUB 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.
EIDW is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, EI, marks
Ireland, 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 Dublin 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.
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