OMDB · DXB · Dubai, Dubai
Planes near DXB: live flight tracking at Dubai International
Dubai International (DXB / OMDB) serves Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A desert coastal hub built around long-haul connections in every direction.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Dubai. 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 DXB, 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 | UAE569 | A388 · A6-EVK |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | UAE384 | A388 · A6-EEY |
| 02:52 UTC | Arrival | UAE38C | A359 · A6-EXR |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | FDB1507 | B38M · A6-FMO |
| 02:46 UTC | Arrival | SEJ5157 | A320 · XU-724 |
| 02:46 UTC | Departure | RJA613 | A21N · JY-RAM |
| 02:44 UTC | Departure | UAE510 | B77W · A6-EGN |
| 02:43 UTC | Arrival | UAE816 | B77W · A6-EPN |
| 02:42 UTC | Arrival | UAE9Q | B77W · A6-ECG |
| 02:37 UTC | Arrival | UAE16M | B77W · A6-ECF |
| 02:36 UTC | Arrival | UAE96 | A388 · A6-EEO |
| 02:35 UTC | Departure | UAE658 | B77W · A6-EGC |
Showing the most recent 12 of 18 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 DXB. 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 30
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UAE8TB77W · A6-EPD | ZurichLSZH / ZRH | on the ground | 89 kt | 1 nmSE of the field |
| UAE4A388 · A6-EOV | LondonEGLL / LHR | 1,225 ft | 151 kt | 4 nmESE of the field |
| AIC4215A20N · VT-TQJ | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 3,250 ft | 197 kt | 12 nmESE of the field |
| FDB7AFB39M · A6-FNB | New DelhiVIDP / DEL | 4,675 ft | 344 kt | 19 nmESE of the field |
| UAE1PB77W · A6-ENG | ThiruvananthapuramVOTV / TRV | 8,800 ft | 272 kt | 27 nmESE of the field |
| UAE501A388 · A6-EUH | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 9,050 ft | 307 kt | 34 nmESE of the field |
| FDB4CEB38M · A6-FMG | BelgradeLYBE / BEG | 12,250 ft | 353 kt | 35 nmNW of the field |
| UAE93PA388 · A6-EOJ | Paris (Roissy-en-France,LFPG / CDG | 22,050 ft | 426 kt | 63 nmSSE of the field |
| UAE7TCB77W · A6-EQD | London, EssexEGSS / STN | 25,075 ft | 469 kt | 105 nmWNW of the field |
| UAE926A388 · A6-EEN | CairoHECA / CAI | 32,300 ft | 486 kt | 115 nmS of the field |
| UAE39LA388 · A6-EDY | Ferno (VA)LIMC / MXP | 39,000 ft | 499 kt | 160 nmSSW of the field |
| UAE144A359 · A6-EXQ | MadridLEMD / MAD | 41,000 ft | 476 kt | 179 nmSW of the field |
| UAE232A388 · A6-EDP | DullesKIAD / IAD | 41,000 ft | 478 kt | 197 nmWNW of the field |
| UAE35QB77W · A6-EBR | MunichEDDM / MUC | 35,000 ft | 504 kt | 220 nmSW of the field |
| UAE20A388 · A6-EVA | Manchester, Greater MancEGCC / MAN | 39,000 ft | 490 kt | 235 nmWNW of the field |
| DHX269B738 · A9C-TXY | ManamaOBBI / BAH | on the ground | 3 kt | 264 nmWNW of the field |
| UAE5VA388 · A6-EUU | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 39,000 ft | 488 kt | 315 nmWNW of the field |
| UAE795B77W · A6-EGB | DakarGOBD / DSS | 37,000 ft | 512 kt | 344 nmWNW of the field |
| FDB446B738 · A6-FEB | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 32,000 ft | 490 kt | 415 nmESE of the field |
| FDB454B738 · A6-FES | KochiVOCI / COK | 24,000 ft | 409 kt | 625 nmE of the field |
Outbound 16 aircraft
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UAE368A388 · A6-EOX | Kuta, BadungWADD / DPS | on the ground | 8 kt | 1 nmESE of the field |
| UAE348B77W · A6-ECO | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmESE of the field |
| UAE356B77W · A6-ENI | JakartaWIII / CGK | on the ground | 0 kt | 1 nmSE of the field |
| RJA613A21N · JY-RAM | AmmanOJAI / AMM | 23,325 ft | 428 kt | 70 nmW of the field |
| UAE510B77W · A6-EGN | New DelhiVIDP / DEL | 27,775 ft | 504 kt | 75 nmE of the field |
| FDB5EXB38M · A6-FKT | AmmanOJAI / AMM | 35,950 ft | 465 kt | 118 nmWNW of the field |
| PGT741A21N · TC-RBN | Pendik, IstanbulLTFJ / SAW | 34,000 ft | 493 kt | 492 nmW of the field |
| UAE526B77W · A6-EGM | HyderabadVOHS / HYD | 35,000 ft | 491 kt | 1,047 nmESE of the field |
| UAE145B77W · A6-EGE | AmsterdamEHAM / AMS | 32,000 ft | 478 kt | 1,251 nmWNW of the field |
| UAE9UB77W · A6-ECU | DhakaVGHS / DAC | 33,000 ft | 491 kt | 1,304 nmE of the field |
| TKJ4DCB38M · TC-VFL | Pendik, IstanbulLTFJ / SAW | 36,000 ft | 388 kt | 1,370 nmWNW of the field |
| UAE9WB77W · A6-ENY | LondonEGKK / LGW | 34,000 ft | 475 kt | 1,580 nmNW of the field |
| UAE1KMA388 · A6-EUD | Manchester, Greater MancEGCC / MAN | 38,000 ft | 445 kt | 1,603 nmNW of the field |
| UAE8ERA388 · A6-EVL | New YorkKJFK / JFK | 36,000 ft | 442 kt | 1,709 nmNW of the field |
| UAE7A388 · A6-EOI | LondonEGLL / LHR | 38,000 ft | 424 kt | 1,736 nmNW of the field |
| UAE3MXA388 · A6-EDM | DullesKIAD / IAD | 36,000 ft | 462 kt | 1,962 nmNW of the field |
About Dubai International
- ICAO codeOMDB
- IATA codeDXB
- ServesDubai
- RegionDubai, United Arab Emirates
- Coordinates25.250°N, 55.371°E
Dubai International sits close to the centre of the city on the Persian Gulf coast, surrounded by desert beyond the built-up area. Its entire model is connection: a very large proportion of the aircraft here are widebodies working long sectors, and the destination list spans every inhabited continent. Summer heat in this part of the Gulf is extreme enough to affect performance in the same way Phoenix's does.
Watch the small hours. Unlike most airports this one has a genuine overnight peak, built around connecting banks that suit both European and Asian schedules, and the map is busiest when much of the region is asleep.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
DXB 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.
OMDB is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, OM, marks
the United Arab Emirates, 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 Dubai 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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