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Live flights over George Best Belfast City Airport (BHD)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 296 departures and 299 arrivals at George Best Belfast City Airport, 85 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are London (LHR), Birmingham, West Midlands (BHX) and Manchester, Greater Manchester (MAN). The airline seen most often is Emerald Airlines UK.

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Airport data

IATA code
BHD
ICAO code
EGAC
City
Belfast
Region
Northern Ireland
Country
United Kingdom
Elevation
5 m (15 ft)
Coordinates
54.6181, -5.8725

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of George Best Belfast City Airport that the network receives appears on the FlyItalyADSB live map: airliners on approach and departure, business and general aviation, and — where MLAT reaches — aircraft without full ADS-B. Nothing is filtered out; how much of the area is covered depends on the community's receivers near Belfast.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day
85
departures + arrivals
Departures
296
total, 7 days
Arrivals
299
total, 7 days
Connections
22
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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150
Sun 1
Mon 2
Tue 3
Wed 4
Thu 5
Fri 6
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Show as a table
Day Departures Arrivals Total
Sun 1 48 48 96
Mon 2 45 46 91
Tue 3 35 37 72
Wed 4 42 42 84
Thu 5 43 43 86
Fri 6 51 52 103
Sat 7 32 31 63

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. London LHR 89 flights
  2. Birmingham, West Midlands BHX 71 flights
  3. Manchester, Greater Manchester MAN 65 flights
  4. Ingliston, Edinburgh EDI 53 flights
  5. Leeds, West Yorkshire LBA 47 flights
  6. London LGW 43 flights
  7. London LCY 33 flights
  8. Liverpool LPL 31 flights
  9. Southampton SOU 28 flights
  10. Amsterdam AMS Netherlands 28 flights
  11. Glasgow GLA 24 flights
  12. Luton, Luton LTN 14 flights
  13. Nottingham, Leicestershire EMA 14 flights
  14. Cardiff CWL 13 flights
  15. Aberdeen ABZ 8 flights
  16. Bristol BRS 7 flights
6 more connections

Airlines

  1. Emerald Airlines UKEAG 284
  2. easyJetEZY 127
  3. British Airways ShuttleSHT 89
  4. BA CityFlyerCFE 34
  5. KLM CityhopperKLC 28
  6. LoganairLOG 16
  7. Volare Aviation (Guernsey)VLZ 5
  8. 247 AviationEMC 2
  9. Netjets UKNJU 2
  10. OrtacORT 2

Aircraft

  1. ATR 72-600 AT76 284
  2. Airbus A320neo A20N 88
  3. Airbus A320 A320 67
  4. Airbus A319 A319 51
  5. Embraer E190 E190 50
  6. E145 14
  7. E75L 12
  8. Airbus A321neo A21N 10
  9. CL60 5

How we count: a flight is a departure here when the network first sees it low near the airport (on the ground, or climbing away from it), an arrival when it last sees it low on approach. Where receivers don't reach low altitude the numbers stay below the real traffic. Connections and airlines come only from airline flights.

Updated every night · the data as JSON (CC BY-SA 4.0)

This data in your app

Every aircraft within 80 km of George Best Belfast City Airport, as JSON, with a free key that also allows commercial use:

curl -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
  https://api.flyitalyadsb.com/v2/lat/54.6181/lon/-5.8725/dist/80

Or ask Claude, with the FlyItalyADSB connector: “which aircraft are near Belfast right now?”

Get a free key → Quickstart

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over George Best Belfast City Airport? +

Open the FlyItalyADSB live map centred on Belfast: it shows every aircraft picked up via ADS-B and MLAT within about 80 km of BHD, refreshed every few seconds.

Which airlines fly from George Best Belfast City Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Emerald Airlines UK, easyJet, British Airways Shuttle, BA CityFlyer and KLM Cityhopper.

What are the main connections from George Best Belfast City Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: London (LHR, 89), Birmingham, West Midlands (BHX, 71), Manchester, Greater Manchester (MAN, 65), Ingliston, Edinburgh (EDI, 53) and Leeds, West Yorkshire (LBA, 47). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Belfast? +

Yes. Thanks to multilateration (MLAT) the network reconstructs the position of aircraft without full ADS-B too, including military and state flights, whenever they are received by feeders in the area. Nothing is filtered out.

What are the codes for George Best Belfast City Airport? +

George Best Belfast City Airport has IATA code BHD and ICAO code EGAC. It lies in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, at coordinates 54.6181, -5.8725.

Is the flight data free and open? +

Yes. The live map and the Free API plan cost nothing, and the data is published under the open CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; paid API plans for higher volumes help cover the infrastructure costs.

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