MEL · YMML Victoria, Australia Live · — aircraft now within 80 km

Live flights over Melbourne Airport (MEL)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 2,255 departures and 2,275 arrivals at Melbourne Airport, 647 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Sydney (SYD), Brisbane (BNE) and Adelaide (ADL). The airline seen most often is Virgin Australia.

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Airport data

IATA code: MEL
ICAO code: YMML
City: Melbourne
Region: Victoria
Country: Australia
Elevation: 132 m (434 ft)
Coordinates: -37.67073, 144.8379

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Melbourne 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 Melbourne.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day

647

departures + arrivals

Departures

2,255

total, 7 days

Arrivals

2,275

total, 7 days

Connections

airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Show as a table

Day	Departures	Arrivals	Total
Sun 1	332	327	659
Mon 2	312	326	638
Tue 3	341	341	682
Wed 4	338	333	671
Thu 5	339	346	685
Fri 6	346	348	694
Sat 7	247	254	501

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

Sydney SYD 829 flights
Brisbane BNE 407 flights
Adelaide ADL 287 flights
Gold Coast OOL 207 flights
Perth PER 204 flights
Canberra CBR 162 flights
Auckland AKL New Zealand 125 flights
Hobart HBA 110 flights
Maroochydore MCY 83 flights
Williamtown NTL 66 flights
Singapore SIN Singapore 58 flights
Hong Kong HKG Hong Kong SAR China 53 flights
Sydney WSI 51 flights
Bangkok BKK Thailand 46 flights
Burnie BWT 46 flights
Launceston LST 44 flights

32 more connections

Devonport DPO 40
Christchurch CHC 37
Sepang KUL 37
Cairns CNS 20
Townsville TSV 20
Wellington WLG 16
Los Angeles LAX 14
Ballina BNK 14
San Francisco SFO 13
Queenstown ZQN 13
Narita NRT 13
Manila MNL 11
Hamilton Island HTI 11
Forest Hill WGA 11
Jakarta CGK 9
Dallas-Fort Worth DFW 7
Abu Dhabi AUH 7
Dubai DXB 7
Proserpine PPP 7
Hanoi HAN 6
Coffs Harbour CFS 6
Taoyuan TPE 5
Hervey Bay HVB 4
Darwin DRW 4
Doha DOH 3
Alice Springs ASP 3
Xi'an XIY 3
Bandar Seri Begawan BWN 2
Taipei TSA 1
Tokyo HND 1
Cooma OOM 1
Geelong/Melbourne AVV 1

Airlines

Virgin AustraliaVOZ 1,140
QantasQFA 1,001
Jetstar AirwaysJST 931
QantasLinkQLK 459
Regional ExpressRXA 132
Air New ZealandANZ 98
Singapore AirlinesSIA 74
Cathay PacificCPA 46
Malaysia AirlinesMAS 44
China Eastern AirlinesCES 34

Aircraft

Boeing 737-800 B738 1,624
Airbus A320 A320 575
Airbus A321neo A21N 264
Boeing 737 MAX 8 B38M 250
Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 DH8D 200
Airbus A220-300 BCS3 189
Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner B789 172
Airbus A320neo A20N 161
Airbus A350-900 A359 156
SF34 142

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 Melbourne 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/-37.67073/lon/144.8379/dist/80

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

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Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over Melbourne Airport? +

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

Which airlines fly from Melbourne Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Virgin Australia, Qantas, Jetstar Airways, QantasLink and Regional Express.

What are the main connections from Melbourne Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Sydney (SYD, 829), Brisbane (BNE, 407), Adelaide (ADL, 287), Gold Coast (OOL, 207) and Perth (PER, 204). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Melbourne? +

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 Melbourne Airport? +

Melbourne Airport has IATA code MEL and ICAO code YMML. It lies in Victoria, Australia, at coordinates -37.67073, 144.8379.

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.