VIDP · DEL · New Delhi, Delhi
Planes near DEL: live flight tracking at Indira Gandhi International
Indira Gandhi International (DEL / VIDP) serves New Delhi, Delhi, India. On the northern Indian plain, where winter fog is a genuine annual operational event.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around New Delhi. 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 DEL, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| No movements have been watched here in the current recording window. This list fills continuously, and a short one usually means quiet hours or a thin view of the airport surface rather than an empty airport. | |||
Nothing recorded here yet in the current 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 DEL. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AIC7JNA20N · VT-TQU | BengaluruVOBL / BLR | 1,450 ft | 128 kt | 2 nmESE of the field |
| IGO1346A20N · VT-IQT | DohaOTHH / DOH | 4,700 ft | 263 kt | 11 nmSE of the field |
| IGO43ARA21N · VT-ICM | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 11,975 ft | 337 kt | 19 nmW of the field |
| AIC2VZA20N · VT-RTV | KochiVOCI / COK | 10,675 ft | 313 kt | 38 nmSSE of the field |
| AIC6RTA20N · VT-TNV | KolkataVECC / CCU | 10,500 ft | 304 kt | 43 nmE of the field |
| AIC9MXA20N · VT-RTN | LucknowVILK / LKO | 14,700 ft | 318 kt | 57 nmE of the field |
| IGO471JA21N · VT-NHX | KolkataVECC / CCU | 19,025 ft | 348 kt | 64 nmE of the field |
| AKJ1109B38M · VT-YAA | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 19,025 ft | 381 kt | 70 nmWSW of the field |
| AIC6DXA20N · VT-TQH | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 34,700 ft | 455 kt | 113 nmSW of the field |
| AXB1348A20N · VT-RTQ | PatnaVEPT / PAT | 34,025 ft | 459 kt | 169 nmESE of the field |
| IGO93HA21N · VT-IMV | Abu DhabiOMAA / AUH | 35,025 ft | 446 kt | 277 nmSW of the field |
| IGO2001A20N · VT-IOU | PatnaVEPT / PAT | 16,050 ft | 363 kt | 434 nmESE of the field |
| VTVRRLJ45 · VT-VRR | PuneVAPO / PNQ | 45,000 ft | 390 kt | 465 nmSSE of the field |
| AIC2FMA20N · VT-TNE | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 36,975 ft | 440 kt | 477 nmSSW of the field |
| IGO607KA21N · VT-NOA | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 35,000 ft | 440 kt | 501 nmSSW of the field |
| IGO6074A21N · VT-NOB | BhubaneswarVEBS / BBI | 38,000 ft | 459 kt | 552 nmSE of the field |
| THA323A21N · HS-TOG | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 35,975 ft | 477 kt | 580 nmESE of the field |
| AXB1060A21N · VT-RTC | BhubaneswarVEBS / BBI | 28,850 ft | 473 kt | 607 nmSE of the field |
| IGO305PA21N · VT-NHG | KolkataVECC / CCU | 10,150 ft | 293 kt | 699 nmESE of the field |
| AIC2333A20N · VT-TQL | BangkokVTBS / BKK | 36,025 ft | 488 kt | 720 nmESE of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 21
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IGO35CHA21N · VT-NCZ | HyderabadVOHS / HYD | 3,075 ft | 208 kt | 3 nmWNW of the field |
| LOT72B789 · SP-LSA | WarsawEPWA / WAW | 7,825 ft | 315 kt | 21 nmW of the field |
| IGO6050A21N · VT-IMH | KochiVOCI / COK | 15,000 ft | 413 kt | 32 nmN of the field |
| FIN122A333 · OH-LTS | Helsinki (Vantaa)EFHK / HEL | 17,950 ft | 417 kt | 63 nmW of the field |
| ETD89JB789 · A6-BNA | Abu DhabiOMAA / AUH | 19,275 ft | 437 kt | 84 nmW of the field |
| IGO5036A20N · VT-ISP | GorakhpurVEGK / GOP | 30,500 ft | 449 kt | 99 nmSE of the field |
| AFL233A333 · RA-73782 | MoscowUUEE / SVO | 28,275 ft | 484 kt | 119 nmNW of the field |
| IGO315JA21N · VT-NHI | KolkataVECC / CCU | 38,975 ft | 444 kt | 403 nmESE of the field |
| AIC5ZHA319 · VT-SCH | MumbaiVABB / BOM | 9,175 ft | 265 kt | 590 nmSSW of the field |
| AIC5KEA20N · VT-TQG | BengaluruVOBL / BLR | 37,025 ft | 471 kt | 795 nmS of the field |
| FDB7AFB39M · A6-FNB | DubaiOMDB / DXB | 4,675 ft | 344 kt | 1,165 nmW of the field |
| AIC111B789 · VT-TSP | LondonEGLL / LHR | 35,975 ft | 497 kt | 1,277 nmW of the field |
| GFA131A20N · A9C-TG | ManamaOBBI / BAH | 10,900 ft | 332 kt | 1,381 nmW of the field |
| KLM872B78X · PH-BKH | AmsterdamEHAM / AMS | 33,975 ft | 455 kt | 1,502 nmNW of the field |
| AIC185B77W · VT-ALX | VancouverCYVR / YVR | 29,800 ft | 490 kt | 1,635 nmE of the field |
| AIC2115A20N · VT-TQF | SingaporeWSSS / SIN | 37,000 ft | 443 kt | 1,971 nmSE of the field |
| AIC2147A21N · VT-TVI | Kuta, BadungWADD / DPS | 33,000 ft | 452 kt | 2,230 nmSE of the field |
| AIC161A359 · VT-JRE | LondonEGLL / LHR | 40,000 ft | 420 kt | 2,655 nmWNW of the field |
| DLH763A388 · D-AIMA | MunichEDDM / MUC | 36,000 ft | 434 kt | 2,686 nmNW of the field |
| AFR283B772 · F-GSPA | Paris (Roissy-en-France,LFPG / CDG | 38,025 ft | 450 kt | 3,194 nmNW of the field |
About Indira Gandhi International
- ICAO codeVIDP
- IATA codeDEL
- ServesNew Delhi
- RegionDelhi, India
- Coordinates28.556°N, 77.095°E
Indira Gandhi International sits southwest of central Delhi on the flat Indo-Gangetic plain. It is the busiest airport in India and the main gateway to the north of the country. Its defining seasonal problem is winter fog: cold, still, humid air settles over the plain in December and January and can reduce visibility for days at a time across an enormous area.
During a fog episode the map tells the story clearly. Arrivals hold, divert to fields hundreds of miles away, and the recovery afterwards produces a burst of traffic well outside the normal daily shape.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
DEL 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.
VIDP is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
two letters, VI, marks
northern India, 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 Delhi 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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