KATL · ATL · Atlanta, Georgia
Planes near ATL: live flight tracking at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International (ATL / KATL) serves Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Traffic here arrives in banks rather than a steady trickle, and the map pulses with them.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Atlanta. 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 ATL, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:58 UTC | Departure | DAL2657 | B739 · N867DN |
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | DAL3029 | B712 · N966AT |
| 02:57 UTC | Arrival | EDV5314 | CRJ9 · N601LR |
| 02:56 UTC | Departure | DAL1268 | B739 · N881DN |
| 02:56 UTC | Departure | DAL2101 | B739 · N884DN |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | DAL1310 | B753 · N596NW |
| 02:55 UTC | Arrival | DAL968 | A321 · N397DN |
| 02:55 UTC | Arrival | DAL1670 | A321 · N305DN |
| 02:53 UTC | Arrival | FFT3691 | A21N · N605FR |
| 02:53 UTC | Departure | KLM248 | B77W · PH-BVF |
| 02:53 UTC | Arrival | DAL1491 | A321 · N362DN |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | DAL3022 | B712 · N996AT |
Showing the most recent 12 of 40 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 ATL. 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 34
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDV5314CRJ9 · N601LR | AlexandriaKAEX / AEX | on the ground | 16 kt | 0 nmSSE of the field |
| FFT3691A21N · N605FR | DullesKIAD / IAD | on the ground | 12 kt | 0 nmN of the field |
| FFT2972A20N · N377FR | New OrleansKMSY / MSY | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmNNE of the field |
| DAL968A321 · N397DN | New YorkKLGA / LGA | on the ground | 20 kt | 1 nmNNW of the field |
| ASA727N933AK | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 15,400 ft | 371 kt | 51 nmNW of the field |
| DAL391B752 · N6716C | RenoKRNO / RNO | 26,000 ft | 469 kt | 150 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL386B752 · N554NW | PhoenixKPHX / PHX | 33,300 ft | 511 kt | 161 nmWNW of the field |
| AAL1375A21N · N460AN | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 35,000 ft | 518 kt | 164 nmNE of the field |
| DAL724B752 · N6700 | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 29,000 ft | 509 kt | 175 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL973A321 · N319DN | BostonKBOS / BOS | 30,025 ft | 440 kt | 195 nmNE of the field |
| JBU1798A320 · N559JB | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 39,000 ft | 469 kt | 277 nmSSE of the field |
| VXP393B738 · N809VL | New HavenKHVN / HVN | 40,000 ft | 379 kt | 333 nmNE of the field |
| AAL1379B738 · N860NN | Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW | 25,750 ft | 491 kt | 368 nmNE of the field |
| SWA3997B38M · N9015R | TampaKTPA / TPA | 4,500 ft | 272 kt | 389 nmW of the field |
| UAL8103B39M · N77584 | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | on the ground | 0 kt | 464 nmNE of the field |
| DAL1032B752 · N692DL | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 41,000 ft | 525 kt | 494 nmNNW of the field |
| AAL1075A320 · N601AW | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 34,025 ft | 415 kt | 510 nmNNE of the field |
| FFT1157N652FR | NewarkKEWR / EWR | 31,975 ft | 399 kt | 511 nmNE of the field |
| DAL560B739 · N838DN | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 35,000 ft | 498 kt | 521 nmNW of the field |
| JBU719A320 · N535JB | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 30,025 ft | 416 kt | 534 nmNE of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 60
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DAL1577B712 · N971AT | MemphisKMEM / MEM | 26,000 ft | 421 kt | 180 nmW of the field |
| DAL2072B739 · N801DZ | New OrleansKMSY / MSY | 34,000 ft | 430 kt | 226 nmSW of the field |
| EDV5182CRJ9 · N135EV | EvansvilleKEVV / EVV | 13,800 ft | 370 kt | 252 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL453A321 · N367DN | Salt Lake CityKSLC / SLC | 24,000 ft | 448 kt | 356 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL842B752 · N658DL | PhoenixKPHX / PHX | 38,000 ft | 425 kt | 357 nmW of the field |
| DAL656B739 · N835DN | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 26,000 ft | 446 kt | 373 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL3111B712 · N946AT | Baton RougeKBTR / BTR | 1,750 ft | 170 kt | 382 nmWSW of the field |
| DAL1105B712 · N986AT | SpringfieldKSGF / SGF | 21,650 ft | 417 kt | 393 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL903B753 · N581NW | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 29,075 ft | 441 kt | 398 nmWNW of the field |
| SKW4095E75L · N265SY | KDTN | 21,500 ft | 437 kt | 408 nmW of the field |
| DAL1531B739 · N831DN | AlbuquerqueKABQ / ABQ | 35,975 ft | 443 kt | 412 nmWNW of the field |
| EDV5535CRJ9 · N909XJ | LafayetteKLFT / LFT | 1,925 ft | 226 kt | 436 nmWSW of the field |
| DAL896A321 · N377DN | San DiegoKSAN / SAN | 36,025 ft | 429 kt | 438 nmW of the field |
| DAL2051A320 · N340NW | HoustonKHOU / HOU | 36,000 ft | 448 kt | 449 nmWSW of the field |
| DAL2144A319 · N346NB | MadisonKMSN / MSN | 30,025 ft | 436 kt | 458 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL1076A320 · N361NW | ChicagoKMDW / MDW | 8,950 ft | 282 kt | 468 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL2945B738 · N3745B | AppletonKATW / ATW | 29,900 ft | 386 kt | 528 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL2630B712 · N927AT | DallasKDAL / DAL | 21,175 ft | 439 kt | 568 nmW of the field |
| DAL2306B712 · N915AT | Des MoinesKDSM / DSM | 22,800 ft | 410 kt | 579 nmNW of the field |
| DAL2959B712 · N919AT | WichitaKICT / ICT | 27,975 ft | 434 kt | 590 nmWNW of the field |
About Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International
- ICAO codeKATL
- IATA codeATL
- ServesAtlanta
- RegionGeorgia, United States
- Coordinates33.637°N, 84.428°W
Hartsfield-Jackson sits on rolling ground south of downtown Atlanta, a long way inland, with no coastline or ridge to bend the approaches. What shapes them instead is the connecting bank: streams converge from every compass direction, land close together, and go back out again a short while later. The rhythm is the thing to watch here, and it is visible on the map long before you read a single callsign.
In summer the shaping factor is weather rather than procedure. When a line of storms sits over north Georgia you can watch the arrival stream bend twenty or thirty miles wide of where it was an hour earlier, then snap back.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
ATL 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.
KATL is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
letter, K, marks
the contiguous United States, 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 Atlanta 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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