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Notable Aircraft at BRS Right Now

Widebodies, super-heavies, military traffic, and emergency squawks in the BRS pattern right now. If there's anything worth noticing, it surfaces here first.

BRS Departures & Arrivals

Scheduled flights for today at Bristol Airport with gate, terminal, and current status. Separate from the live radar above, which shows every aircraft in the sky whether or not it's on a public schedule.

Status Airline Flight Destination Sched Updated Gate
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Top Airlines at BRS Right Now

3 aircraft tracked

Snapshot from 23:19 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

Ryanair
1
Easyjet Uk
1
Tui Airways Limited
1
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Aircraft Types in the Pattern

BOEING 737 MAX 8 leads the BRS pattern with 2 aircraft right now, followed by AIRBUS A-320neo at 1. The mix is a fingerprint of the operation. Narrowbody-heavy points to domestic trunk service; widebodies signal long-haul arrivals and departures.

Snapshot from 23:19 UTC — live data loads in a moment.

2
B38M
BOEING 737 MAX 8
1
A20N
AIRBUS A-320neo

About Bristol Airport

BRS's busiest nonstop destination is AMS, at 91 flights a week. 222 scheduled destinations overall, served by 22 airlines. Based in Bristol.

Elevation
622ft
Routes
222
Airlines
22
Busiest Route
BRS → AMS
91x/week
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All Tracked Flights

Every aircraft currently inside the BRS radar. Sort by any column. Click a row to open its tracker page with route arc, altitude profile, and live telemetry.

Callsign Route Type Dir Alt Speed Dist Squawk
BYBY 9EA B38M 3,725 188kt 11nm 2767
U2U2 58NY A20N 5,950 262kt 11nm 1167
FRFR 10AM B38M 37,500 494kt 17nm 5321

Frequently Asked Questions

Aircraft positions refresh every few minutes. ADS-B is GPS-accurate, so what you see is within about 30 meters of the aircraft's position at broadcast time.

Altitude. Red on the ground, through green, teal, and blue for mid-altitudes, into violet above 40,000 feet. At a glance you can tell who just took off, who is climbing through the pattern, and who is cruising overhead.

They are inside the BRS radar radius but not landing or departing here. Passing through en route to another airport. We flag them so the numbers for BRS traffic actually reflect BRS traffic.

Click any aircraft on the map. You get its track line across the region and an altitude profile showing the climb, cruise, and descent.

A pulsing red circle indicates an emergency squawk: 7500 (hijack), 7600 (comm failure), or 7700 (general emergency). These are legally-required codes pilots set when something is wrong.

The radar shows live aircraft positions. Gate, terminal, and schedule status sit in the Board section above this one.

GPS-accurate via ADS-B, typically within 30 meters horizontally. Positions refresh every few minutes. When a signal drops (mountain terrain, certain oceanic corridors), the marker holds the last-known position instead of disappearing.