KJFK · JFK · New York, New York
Planes near JFK: live flight tracking at John F. Kennedy International
John F. Kennedy International (JFK / KJFK) serves New York, New York, United States. The North Atlantic gateway, and the source of the evening wave eastbound over the ocean.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around New York. 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
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These are transitions the receiver network actually observed at JFK, 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 | Arrival | AVA244 | B788 · N795AV |
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | BAW14K | B77W · G-STBK |
| 02:56 UTC | Arrival | EDV4783 | CRJ9 · N916XJ |
| 02:56 UTC | Arrival | EDV5067 | CRJ9 · N695CA |
| 02:54 UTC | Departure | JBU937 | A321 · N999JQ |
| 02:53 UTC | Departure | DAL114 | B763 · N16065 |
| 02:52 UTC | Arrival | QTR57H | A359 · A7-AMI |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | EDV4946 | CRJ9 · N319PQ |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | EDV5123 | CRJ9 · N133EV |
| 02:50 UTC | Arrival | THY11 | B77W · TC-JJK |
| 02:50 UTC | Departure | JBU161 | A321 · N958JB |
| 02:49 UTC | Arrival | EDV5250 | CRJ9 · N827SK |
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 JFK. 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 59
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| JBU1054BCS3 · N3065J | KPBI | on the ground | 0 kt | 0 nmNE of the field |
| THY11B77W · TC-JJK | IstanbulLTFM / IST | on the ground | 11 kt | 1 nmW of the field |
| ICE55LB38M · TF-ICF | ReykjavíkBIKF / KEF | -150 ft | 144 kt | 1 nmNE of the field |
| JBU624A321 · N937JB | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | on the ground | 14 kt | 1 nmNNW of the field |
| JBU520BCS3 · N3157J | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 1,025 ft | 131 kt | 4 nmESE of the field |
| DAL1035BCS1 · N132DU | JacksonvilleKJAX / JAX | 1,825 ft | 159 kt | 6 nmSE of the field |
| ASA36B739 · N248AK | San DiegoKSAN / SAN | 2,650 ft | 157 kt | 9 nmESE of the field |
| DAL938B763 · N186DN | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 13,700 ft | 312 kt | 11 nmSW of the field |
| GEC8160B77L · D-ALFJ | Frankfurt am MainEDDF / FRA | 3,600 ft | 162 kt | 13 nmESE of the field |
| ANA160B77W · JA797A | TokyoRJTT / HND | 2,875 ft | 174 kt | 18 nmESE of the field |
| AMX406B38M · XA-OTB | MonterreyMMMY / MTY | 2,850 ft | 242 kt | 20 nmSSE of the field |
| JBU817BCS3 · N3121J | BostonKBOS / BOS | 7,725 ft | 234 kt | 26 nmE of the field |
| RPA5702E75L · N219YX | BostonKBOS / BOS | 11,875 ft | 293 kt | 43 nmENE of the field |
| DAL1394A319 · N362NB | New OrleansKMSY / MSY | 20,375 ft | 437 kt | 44 nmWNW of the field |
| AAL657A319 · N9002U | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 12,750 ft | 323 kt | 46 nmS of the field |
| JBU201BCS3 · N3276J | BuffaloKBUF / BUF | 27,000 ft | 457 kt | 71 nmNNW of the field |
| DAL697A21N · N508DA | Salt Lake CityKSLC / SLC | 22,975 ft | 454 kt | 73 nmWNW of the field |
| DAL689B752 · N551NW | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | 28,075 ft | 480 kt | 96 nmWNW of the field |
| JBU1117A320 · N562JB | BostonKBOS / BOS | 22,000 ft | 364 kt | 110 nmENE of the field |
| JBU485A320 · N563JB | RochesterKROC / ROC | 27,000 ft | 405 kt | 118 nmNW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 60
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EDV4933CRJ9 · N931XJ | MinneapolisKMSP / MSP | 19,025 ft | 351 kt | 22 nmNW of the field |
| JBU161A321 · N958JB | SacramentoKSMF / SMF | 16,025 ft | 380 kt | 41 nmSW of the field |
| FDX1292B763 · N182FE | MemphisKMEM / MEM | 32,975 ft | 399 kt | 80 nmWSW of the field |
| JBU1059A321 · N948JB | KingstonMKJP / KIN | 34,000 ft | 386 kt | 126 nmSSW of the field |
| JBU719A320 · N535JB | AtlantaKATL / ATL | 30,025 ft | 416 kt | 129 nmWSW of the field |
| RPA4573E75L · N436YX | Raleigh/DurhamKRDU / RDU | 26,000 ft | 406 kt | 136 nmWSW of the field |
| JBU923A321 · N978JB | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 36,025 ft | 407 kt | 153 nmWNW of the field |
| JBU515A321 · N985JT | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 35,950 ft | 411 kt | 169 nmWNW of the field |
| RPA4450E75L · N132HQ | ChicagoKORD / ORD | 2,525 ft | 213 kt | 184 nmWSW of the field |
| DAL781B752 · N6714Q | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | 38,000 ft | 389 kt | 235 nmW of the field |
| EDV5326CRJ9 · N832SK | NorfolkKORF / ORF | -50 ft | 123 kt | 251 nmSSW of the field |
| JBU615A321 · N986JB | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 34,025 ft | 414 kt | 261 nmW of the field |
| AAL300A321 · N104NN | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 33,975 ft | 405 kt | 280 nmW of the field |
| JBU1511A321 · N983JT | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | 36,000 ft | 395 kt | 280 nmW of the field |
| JBU2725A320 · N662JB | TampaKTPA / TPA | 36,000 ft | 423 kt | 346 nmSSW of the field |
| AAL177A321 · N101NN | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 34,000 ft | 435 kt | 369 nmWNW of the field |
| RPA5658E75L · N229JQ | ColumbusKCMH / CMH | 1,975 ft | 140 kt | 424 nmW of the field |
| EDV5036CRJ9 · N482PX | CharlotteKCLT / CLT | 10,025 ft | 283 kt | 437 nmSW of the field |
| JBU1083BCS3 · N3115J | OrlandoKMCO / MCO | 38,000 ft | 427 kt | 445 nmSSW of the field |
| JBU2129A320 · N570JB | Fort MyersKRSW / RSW | 36,000 ft | 433 kt | 482 nmSSW of the field |
About John F. Kennedy International
- ICAO codeKJFK
- IATA codeJFK
- ServesNew York
- RegionNew York, United States
- Coordinates40.639°N, 73.779°W
Kennedy sits on the southern edge of Long Island beside Jamaica Bay, with water on two sides and Newark and LaGuardia sharing the same crowded airspace. Its signature is the evening transatlantic push: a large group of aircraft departing within a couple of hours of each other, climbing out over the ocean, and vanishing from the map as they leave the range of the last coastal receiver.
That vanishing act is worth understanding. Nothing is wrong when an aircraft disappears a few hundred miles offshore; ADS-B is line of sight, and there is no rooftop antenna in the middle of the Atlantic to hear it.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
JFK 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.
KJFK 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 New York 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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