KAUS · AUS · Austin, Texas
Planes near AUS: live flight tracking at Austin-Bergstrom International
Austin-Bergstrom International (AUS / KAUS) serves Austin, Texas, United States. A central Texas field on the edge of the hill country, growing fast.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Austin. 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 AUS, 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 | Arrival | UAL2621 | B38M · N47288 |
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | SWA2569 | B38M · N8981Q |
| 02:55 UTC | Arrival | N8165C | P28A |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | KII117 | B734 · N733CK |
| 02:52 UTC | Arrival | AAL2707 | A321 · N136AN |
| 02:51 UTC | Arrival | SWA207 | B38M · N9001F |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | SWA1675 | B737 · N7738A |
| 02:49 UTC | Arrival | UAL1001 | B739 · N28457 |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | SWA1010 | B737 · N209WN |
| 02:47 UTC | Arrival | SWA142 | B738 · N8661A |
| 02:44 UTC | Arrival | UAL373 | B738 · N76502 |
| 02:43 UTC | Arrival | UAL1718 | B38M · N17314 |
Showing the most recent 12 of 20 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 AUS. 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 45
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AAL2707A321 · N136AN | Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW | on the ground | 4 kt | 0 nmWNW of the field |
| UAL2621B38M · N47288 | HoustonKIAH / IAH | on the ground | 19 kt | 1 nmSSE of the field |
| DAL2749A320 · N363NW | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 3,025 ft | 212 kt | 11 nmNNE of the field |
| DAL1081A321 · N361DN | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 21,225 ft | 431 kt | 57 nmENE of the field |
| N493PHB407 | TempleKTPL / TPL | 2,200 ft | 116 kt | 73 nmE of the field |
| SKW3669E75L · N254SY | DenverKDEN / DEN | 28,225 ft | 466 kt | 97 nmNW of the field |
| AAL1905A321 · N120EE | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 27,900 ft | 441 kt | 103 nmE of the field |
| N968TXC208 | KADS | 6,450 ft | 123 kt | 163 nmNNE of the field |
| N116MBC650 | KADS | on the ground | 8 kt | 172 nmNNE of the field |
| DAL1677N318DU | BostonKBOS / BOS | 28,000 ft | 480 kt | 221 nmNE of the field |
| AAL1314A320 · N658AW | PhiladelphiaKPHL / PHL | 36,050 ft | 440 kt | 252 nmNE of the field |
| N225SBBE40 | San AntonioKSAT / SAT | 33,775 ft | 399 kt | 307 nmW of the field |
| SKW3292E75L · N409SY | San DiegoKSAN / SAN | 37,000 ft | 447 kt | 342 nmWNW of the field |
| SWA4866B737 · N903WN | MilwaukeeKMKE / MKE | 38,000 ft | 460 kt | 448 nmNNE of the field |
| JBU2271A320 · N524JB | Fort LauderdaleKFLL / FLL | 38,000 ft | 426 kt | 456 nmE of the field |
| ASA372B39M · N975AK | SeattleKSEA / SEA | 39,000 ft | 464 kt | 462 nmNW of the field |
| DAL692B738 · N3736C | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 39,000 ft | 463 kt | 510 nmWNW of the field |
| UAL312B739 · N69885 | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 36,000 ft | 475 kt | 517 nmNNE of the field |
| SWA2444B38M · N8871Q | LubbockKLBB / LBB | 38,000 ft | 452 kt | 603 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL1077A319 · N363NB | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 37,000 ft | 472 kt | 612 nmNW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 29
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N8304RP28A | College StationKCLL / CLL | 5,475 ft | 108 kt | 9 nmNW of the field |
| KII117B734 · N733CK | Cincinnati / CovingtonKCVG / CVG | 8,675 ft | 279 kt | 10 nmE of the field |
| SWA4718B738 · N8651A | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 33,025 ft | 479 kt | 11 nmENE of the field |
| FDX1227B762 · N247FE | MemphisKMEM / MEM | 35,000 ft | 493 kt | 99 nmE of the field |
| UPS787B763 · N307UP | LouisvilleKSDF / SDF | 39,025 ft | 484 kt | 139 nmENE of the field |
| SWA349B738 · N8306H | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 39,000 ft | 454 kt | 357 nmWNW of the field |
| SWA267B738 · N8611F | BaltimoreKBWI / BWI | 40,000 ft | 469 kt | 382 nmNNE of the field |
| AAL1291B738 · N813NN | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 38,000 ft | 447 kt | 388 nmWNW of the field |
| EJA472E55P · N472QS | DallasKDAL / DAL | 41,000 ft | 482 kt | 439 nmENE of the field |
| UAL202N17405 | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 38,000 ft | 433 kt | 579 nmNW of the field |
| FFT1859A20N · N440FR | DenverKDEN / DEN | 25,675 ft | 418 kt | 594 nmNNW of the field |
| UAL292B39M · N27419 | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 36,000 ft | 462 kt | 604 nmWNW of the field |
| SWA277B38M · N8887Q | DallasKDAL / DAL | on the ground | 13 kt | 675 nmNNW of the field |
| SWA274B738 · N8689C | DallasKDAL / DAL | 40,000 ft | 385 kt | 717 nmNNE of the field |
| SWA753N8763L | DenverKDEN / DEN | 34,000 ft | 391 kt | 741 nmNNE of the field |
| DAL1584B738 · N3763D | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 36,000 ft | 436 kt | 781 nmWNW of the field |
| TWY887GLF6 · N887WE | DullesKIAD / IAD | 45,000 ft | 468 kt | 874 nmWNW of the field |
| SWA4319B738 · N8670A | NashvilleKBNA / BNA | 37,000 ft | 492 kt | 944 nmENE of the field |
| SWA3611B737 · N246LV | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | on the ground | 0 kt | 946 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL1297N339DU | BostonKBOS / BOS | 37,000 ft | 536 kt | 985 nmENE of the field |
About Austin-Bergstrom International
- ICAO codeKAUS
- IATA codeAUS
- ServesAustin
- RegionTexas, United States
- Coordinates30.198°N, 97.662°W
Austin-Bergstrom sits southeast of the city, on the boundary between the Texas hill country to the west and the coastal plain to the east. Its traffic has grown a great deal in recent years, and the mix is unusually varied for a field of its size: airline flights, business aviation and a large amount of light traffic all sharing the same airspace.
The hill country west of the field is good general aviation country, and much of what you see moving slowly over it will be flying visually with no flight plan of any kind. Those aircraft are on the map only because they choose to broadcast.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
AUS 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.
KAUS 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 Austin 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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