YBBN · BNE · Brisbane, Queensland
Planes near BNE: live flight tracking at Brisbane Airport
Brisbane Airport (BNE / YBBN) serves Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Built on coastal mud flats, with approaches over Moreton Bay.
The live map
Aircraft the volunteer receiver network can currently hear around Brisbane. 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 BNE, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 02:57 UTC | Departure | JST836 | A21N · VH-OYX |
| 02:55 UTC | Arrival | QFA522 | B738 · VH-VYJ |
| 02:47 UTC | Departure | QLK359 | E190 · VH-UZH |
| 02:46 UTC | Departure | QFA864 | B738 · VH-XZR |
| 02:45 UTC | Departure | QFA185 | B738 · VH-XZE |
| 02:43 UTC | Departure | QLK1884 | E190 · VH-XVX |
| 02:42 UTC | Arrival | JST801 | A21N · VH-OYU |
| 02:40 UTC | Departure | QLK1983 | E190 · VH-UYZ |
| 02:39 UTC | Departure | QLK378D | DH8D · VH-LQH |
| 02:38 UTC | Departure | VOZ466 | B737 · VH-NVW |
| 02:37 UTC | Arrival | QLK1948 | E190 · VH-UZD |
| 02:35 UTC | Departure | FJI920 | A332 · DQ-FJV |
Showing the most recent 12 of 20 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 BNE. 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 18 aircraft
| Flight | From | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QFA522B738 · VH-VYJ | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | on the ground | 11 kt | 0 nmESE of the field |
| QFA518A332 · VH-EBJ | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | on the ground | 9 kt | 0 nmE of the field |
| BEQC172 · VH-BEQ | YBAF | 1,125 ft | 85 kt | 11 nmNNW of the field |
| VOZ323B738 · VH-IJQ | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 6,100 ft | 292 kt | 12 nmESE of the field |
| VOZ608B738 · VH-YQG | MackayYBMK / MKY | 9,750 ft | 289 kt | 30 nmNW of the field |
| VOZ1217B738 · VH-YFY | CanberraYSCB / CBR | 39,000 ft | 536 kt | 117 nmSSW of the field |
| QFA524A21N · VH-OGA | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | 37,000 ft | 488 kt | 147 nmS of the field |
| QLK1845E190 · VH-UYE | RockhamptonYBRK / ROK | 35,000 ft | 463 kt | 156 nmNW of the field |
| FD471B350 · VH-8FD | RockhamptonYBRK / ROK | 27,000 ft | 253 kt | 230 nmNW of the field |
| QFA863B738 · VH-XZQ | TownsvilleYBTL / TSV | 39,000 ft | 459 kt | 294 nmNW of the field |
| QLK1972E190 · VH-UYF | East AlburyYMAY / ABX | 37,000 ft | 488 kt | 381 nmSSW of the field |
| VOZ388B737 · VH-NBV | TownsvilleYBTL / TSV | 39,000 ft | 459 kt | 434 nmNW of the field |
| QFA616B738 · VH-VZP | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 37,000 ft | 472 kt | 583 nmSSW of the field |
| VOZ327P28A · VH-IJR | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 39,000 ft | 482 kt | 598 nmSSW of the field |
| VOZ1393B738 · VH-YQR | AdelaideYPAD / ADL | 36,975 ft | 462 kt | 718 nmSW of the field |
| QLK7881E190 · VH-UYJ | GladstoneYGLA / GLT | 25,825 ft | 424 kt | 895 nmSSW of the field |
| QFA936B738 · VH-VXL | PerthYPPH / PER | 22,525 ft | 402 kt | 1,908 nmWSW of the field |
| VOZ467B738 · VH-YIU | PerthYPPH / PER | 16,500 ft | 352 kt | 1,925 nmWSW of the field |
Outbound nearest 20 of 29
| Flight | To | Altitude | Ground speed | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VOZ328B738 · VH-YIJ | MelbourneYMML / MEL | on the ground | 3 kt | 0 nmSSE of the field |
| VOZ1243B738 · VH-YIL | RockhamptonYBRK / ROK | on the ground | 51 kt | 1 nmE of the field |
| RSCU533A139 · VH-LF6 | YKRYYKRY / KGY | 825 ft | 89 kt | 6 nmWSW of the field |
| R8790AP22 · 23-8790 | YCDR | 425 ft | 58 kt | 12 nmNNW of the field |
| QLK359E190 · VH-UZH | Nouméa (La Tontouta)NWWW / NOU | 13,225 ft | 362 kt | 25 nmESE of the field |
| QFA864B738 · VH-XZR | TownsvilleYBTL / TSV | 28,425 ft | 441 kt | 46 nmN of the field |
| QFA185B738 · VH-XZE | QueenstownNZQN / ZQN | 29,300 ft | 448 kt | 77 nmSE of the field |
| QLK378DDH8D · VH-LQH | Hervey BayYHBA / HVB | 16,025 ft | 305 kt | 83 nmN of the field |
| QLK1983E190 · VH-UYZ | WilliamtownYWLM / NTL | 32,000 ft | 359 kt | 91 nmSSW of the field |
| VOZ466B737 · VH-NVW | PerthYPPH / PER | 36,125 ft | 342 kt | 111 nmSW of the field |
| FD478BE20 · VH-FDM | BundabergYBUD / BDB | 500 ft | 121 kt | 124 nmN of the field |
| CPA150A359 · B-LRR | Hong KongVHHH / HKG | 35,925 ft | 449 kt | 131 nmNNW of the field |
| FJI920A332 · DQ-FJV | Los AngelesKLAX / LAX | 35,025 ft | 585 kt | 139 nmE of the field |
| QLK313DDH8D · VH-QOF | CanberraYSCB / CBR | 20,000 ft | 331 kt | 188 nmSSW of the field |
| QLK1898E190 · VH-UYK | YLIN | 36,000 ft | 408 kt | 189 nmNNW of the field |
| VOZ121B738 · VH-YIW | QueenstownNZQN / ZQN | 38,975 ft | 472 kt | 192 nmSE of the field |
| QFA527B738 · VH-VXB | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | 36,000 ft | 415 kt | 241 nmSSW of the field |
| JST567A21N · VH-OFL | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 32,025 ft | 414 kt | 253 nmSSW of the field |
| JST559A21N · VH-OYQ | MelbourneYMML / MEL | 34,025 ft | 421 kt | 310 nmSSW of the field |
| VOZ946B738 · VH-YIF | Sydney (Mascot)YSSY / SYD | 23,975 ft | 436 kt | 317 nmSSW of the field |
About Brisbane Airport
- ICAO codeYBBN
- IATA codeBNE
- ServesBrisbane
- RegionQueensland, Australia
- Coordinates27.384°S, 153.117°E
Brisbane Airport sits northeast of the city on reclaimed flats where the Brisbane River meets Moreton Bay, so much of the arrival and departure track is over shallow water. It is the main gateway to Queensland, which gives it a heavy leisure component alongside the domestic network, and the Gold Coast field a short distance south adds to the local traffic.
Subtropical storms in the summer months are the local hazard. They build inland over the ranges west of the city in the afternoon and move east toward the coast, and the arrival flow moves out of their way as they come.
What the codes mean
Airports carry two identifiers and they are not interchangeable.
BNE 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.
YBBN is the ICAO code: four letters, used by air traffic
control, flight planning systems and trackers like this one. Its first
letter, Y, marks
Australia, 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 Brisbane 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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