PHNL · HNL · Honolulu, Hawaii
Planes near HNL: live flight tracking at Daniel K. Inouye International
Daniel K. Inouye International (HNL / PHNL) serves Honolulu, Hawaii, United States. An island field where every arrival has spent hours out of receiver range first.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Honolulu. 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 HNL, 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 | N96PF | BE9L · PR-HSG |
| 02:56 UTC | Departure | ASA865 | A332 · N375HA |
| 02:55 UTC | Departure | DAL181 | B763 · N177DZ |
| 02:52 UTC | Departure | ASA1176 | B712 · N487HA |
| 02:51 UTC | Departure | JAL71 | B789 · JA877J |
| 02:49 UTC | Departure | ASA1168 | B712 · N476HA |
| 02:48 UTC | Departure | ASA895 | A21N · N205HA |
| 02:47 UTC | Arrival | ASA899 | A332 · N378HA |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | FDX1800 | MD11 · N522FE |
| 02:45 UTC | Departure | ASA1102 | B712 · N477HA |
| 02:44 UTC | Arrival | ASA1114 | B712 · N475HA |
| 02:42 UTC | Departure | N299RP | BE9L |
Showing the most recent 12 of 25 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 HNL. 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 16 aircraft
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N96PFBE9L · PR-HSG | KaunakakaiPHMK / MKK | on the ground | 6 kt | 0 nmSE of the field |
| N42PF | KaunakakaiPHMK / MKK | 625 ft | 64 kt | 9 nmW of the field |
| N85PF | KaunakakaiPHMK / MKK | 3,000 ft | 81 kt | 9 nmNW of the field |
| CKS5960B77W · N769CK | OntarioKONT / ONT | 3,000 ft | 220 kt | 12 nmW of the field |
| AAL5B788 · N813AN | Dallas-Fort WorthKDFW / DFW | 5,750 ft | 214 kt | 17 nmWSW of the field |
| N741RHR44 | PHUP | 2,100 ft | 84 kt | 24 nmESE of the field |
| ASA1124B712 · N493HA | Lihue, KauaiPHLI / LIH | 11,450 ft | 342 kt | 62 nmWNW of the field |
| N61PF | KaunakakaiPHMK / MKK | 2,075 ft | 73 kt | 63 nmESE of the field |
| DAL443A21N · N526DE | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 30,000 ft | 421 kt | 1,877 nmENE of the field |
| ASA805A332 · N390HA | Las VegasKLAS / LAS | 40,000 ft | 414 kt | 1,988 nmENE of the field |
| ASA854A21N · N223HA | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 10,975 ft | 350 kt | 2,040 nmNE of the field |
| ASA833N208HA | PortlandKPDX / PDX | 34,025 ft | 500 kt | 2,118 nmNE of the field |
| SWA661B737 · N7721E | Lihue, KauaiPHLI / LIH | 13,325 ft | 313 kt | 2,237 nmNE of the field |
| ASA552B738 · N525AS | BurbankKBUR / BUR | 37,675 ft | 432 kt | 2,288 nmNE of the field |
| ASA768B39M · N918AK | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 35,000 ft | 436 kt | 2,310 nmNE of the field |
| LXJ663GLF6 · N663FX | Pinellas ParkKPIE / PIE | 47,000 ft | 432 kt | 4,672 nmNE of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 26
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| N78PF | KapoleiPHJR / JRF | 2,000 ft | 103 kt | 6 nmNW of the field |
| N541LC | KapoleiPHJR / JRF | on the ground | 6 kt | 8 nmW of the field |
| N4390QC172 | KaunakakaiPHMK / MKK | 1,375 ft | 73 kt | 12 nmW of the field |
| DAL181B763 · N177DZ | TokyoRJTT / HND | 9,800 ft | 301 kt | 12 nmSSW of the field |
| N8CAC208 | KaunakakaiPHMK / MKK | 1,725 ft | 165 kt | 13 nmSSE of the field |
| N74808R44 | PHUP | 2,400 ft | 108 kt | 15 nmNNW of the field |
| JAL71B789 · JA877J | TokyoRJTT / HND | 14,150 ft | 403 kt | 27 nmW of the field |
| ASA1176B712 · N487HA | KahuluiPHOG / OGG | 12,175 ft | 357 kt | 29 nmESE of the field |
| ASA1168B712 · N476HA | Kailua-KonaPHKO / KOA | 14,200 ft | 398 kt | 42 nmSE of the field |
| N299RPBE9L | KahuluiPHOG / OGG | 7,225 ft | 222 kt | 46 nmESE of the field |
| N3263NBE9L | KahuluiPHOG / OGG | 14,150 ft | 171 kt | 52 nmESE of the field |
| FDX1800MD11 · N522FE | OaklandKOAK / OAK | 22,900 ft | 467 kt | 56 nmENE of the field |
| ASA812A332 · N383HA | San FranciscoKSFO / SFO | 37,000 ft | 531 kt | 1,949 nmNE of the field |
| UAL1157B772 · N771UA | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 37,000 ft | 525 kt | 2,003 nmENE of the field |
| DAL427B763 · N1201P | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 35,000 ft | 515 kt | 2,059 nmENE of the field |
| ASA848A332 · N388HA | OaklandKOAK / OAK | 225 ft | 129 kt | 2,092 nmNE of the field |
| ASA870A21N · N227HA | Long BeachKLGB / LGB | 33,000 ft | 489 kt | 2,116 nmENE of the field |
| ASA960A21N · N214HA | SacramentoKSMF / SMF | on the ground | 9 kt | 2,138 nmNE of the field |
| ASA814A332 · N379HA | PortlandKPDX / PDX | 23,750 ft | 458 kt | 2,171 nmNE of the field |
| SWA1938B737 · N435WN | San DiegoKSAN / SAN | on the ground | 0 kt | 2,398 nmENE of the field |
About Daniel K. Inouye International
- ICAO codePHNL
- IATA codeHNL
- ServesHonolulu
- RegionHawaii, United States
- Coordinates21.318°N, 157.926°W
Daniel K. Inouye International sits on the south shore of Oahu, immediately west of Honolulu, and shares its site with a military airfield. Everything that arrives here has crossed a great deal of open ocean to do it, and everything that leaves is heading back out over the same water. Inter-island traffic fills in the gaps between the long-haul flights.
This is the clearest place on the site to understand the limits of ADS-B. Aircraft appear from nothing a few hundred miles out and vanish again on departure, because there is no receiver in the middle of the Pacific to hear them.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
HNL 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.
PHNL is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, PH, marks
Hawaii, 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 Honolulu 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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