NZAA · AKL · Auckland, Auckland
Planes near AKL: live flight tracking at Auckland Airport
Auckland Airport (AKL / NZAA) serves Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. The most isolated major airport on this list, with very long over-water sectors.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Auckland. 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 AKL, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:56 UTC | Arrival | ANZ620 | A320 · ZK-OXC |
| 02:52 UTC | Arrival | ANZ016M | AT76 · ZK-MVD |
| 02:49 UTC | Arrival | ANZ973 | A21N · ZK-NND |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | ANZ623 | A320 · ZK-OXA |
| 02:40 UTC | Departure | JST231 | A320 · VH-VGA |
| 02:36 UTC | Departure | ANZ015M | AT76 · ZK-MVJ |
| 02:34 UTC | Departure | SIA286 | B77W · 9V-SNB |
| 02:32 UTC | Departure | FJI410 | A332 · DQ-FJU |
| 02:30 UTC | Departure | ANZ073L | DH8C · ZK-NEZ |
| 02:30 UTC | Departure | JST235 | A320 · VH-VGF |
| 02:28 UTC | Departure | ANZ433 | A320 · ZK-OXE |
| 02:24 UTC | Departure | ANZ547 | A320 · ZK-OXI |
Showing the most recent 12 of 15 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 AKL. 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 11 aircraft
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANZ620A320 · ZK-OXC | QueenstownNZQN / ZQN | on the ground | 9 kt | 0 nmNE of the field |
| QFA153B738 · VH-VZS | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 9,650 ft | 329 kt | 38 nmW of the field |
| ANZ102A21N · ZK-NNF | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | 13,625 ft | 307 kt | 50 nmW of the field |
| ANZ072LDH8C · ZK-NED | NelsonNZNS / NSN | 25,000 ft | 206 kt | 78 nmS of the field |
| ANZ142A21N · ZK-NNI | BrisbaneYBBN / BNE | 34,600 ft | 479 kt | 119 nmNW of the field |
| JST258A320 · VH-X3N | WellingtonNZWN / WLG | 33,000 ft | 350 kt | 120 nmS of the field |
| SKL5BE20 · ZK-SDH | DunedinNZDN / DUD | 24,000 ft | 278 kt | 163 nmSSW of the field |
| JST246A320 · VH-VGU | ChristchurchNZCH / CHC | 30,975 ft | 409 kt | 257 nmS of the field |
| ANZ630A320 · ZK-OXD | QueenstownNZQN / ZQN | 37,025 ft | 475 kt | 388 nmSSW of the field |
| TMN2B763 · VH-FKX | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | 25,275 ft | 433 kt | 1,102 nmW of the field |
| ANZ122B77W · ZK-OKW | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 35,375 ft | 474 kt | 1,347 nmWSW of the field |
Outbound 11 aircraft
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ANZ623A320 · ZK-OXA | QueenstownNZQN / ZQN | 23,700 ft | 443 kt | 60 nmSSW of the field |
| ANZ015MAT76 · ZK-MVJ | NapierNZNR / NPE | 18,000 ft | 270 kt | 78 nmSSE of the field |
| ANZ073LDH8C · ZK-NEZ | NelsonNZNS / NSN | 24,025 ft | 287 kt | 102 nmSSW of the field |
| JST231A320 · VH-VGA | ChristchurchNZCH / CHC | 33,925 ft | 478 kt | 108 nmSSW of the field |
| SIA286B77W · 9V-SNB | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 31,975 ft | 475 kt | 134 nmW of the field |
| JST235A320 · VH-VGF | ChristchurchNZCH / CHC | 34,025 ft | 468 kt | 192 nmSSW of the field |
| ANZ433A320 · ZK-OXE | WellingtonNZWN / WLG | 20,450 ft | 434 kt | 212 nmS of the field |
| ANZ547A320 · ZK-OXI | ChristchurchNZCH / CHC | 38,000 ft | 439 kt | 234 nmSSW of the field |
| ANZ539A320 · ZK-OXG | ChristchurchNZCH / CHC | 2,375 ft | 180 kt | 410 nmSSW of the field |
| ANZ284B77W · ZK-OKM | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 36,000 ft | 474 kt | 1,936 nmWNW of the field |
| QFA4B789 · VH-ZNM | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | 34,000 ft | 509 kt | 6,222 nmENE of the field |
About Auckland Airport
- ICAO codeNZAA
- IATA codeAKL
- ServesAuckland
- RegionAuckland, New Zealand
- Coordinates37.012°S, 174.786°E
Auckland Airport sits on the shore of the Manukau Harbour, south of the city, on the narrow isthmus that Auckland occupies. Every international flight from here is a long over-water sector, and the nearest large foreign airport is several hours away across the Tasman Sea. That isolation shapes the schedule: long-haul departures cluster in the evening and arrivals in the early morning.
This field shows the edges of the receiver network as clearly as Honolulu does. Aircraft appear and disappear a few hundred miles offshore, and there is a great deal of empty ocean on this map where flights certainly are, but no receiver can hear them.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
AKL 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.
NZAA is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, NZ, marks
New Zealand, 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 Auckland 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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