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BRU · EBBR Flemish Brabant Province, Belgium Live · — aircraft now within 80 km

Live flights over Brussels Airport (BRU)

From 1 to 7 November 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 1,880 departures and 1,880 arrivals at Brussels Airport, 537 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Madrid (MAD), Frankfurt am Main (FRA) and Copenhagen (CPH). The airline seen most often is Brussels Airlines.

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Airport data

IATA code
BRU
ICAO code
EBBR
City
Zaventem
Region
Flemish Brabant Province
Country
Belgium
Elevation
53 m (175 ft)
Coordinates
50.9014, 4.48444

What you can track here

Every aircraft passing within roughly 80 km of Brussels 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 Zaventem.

Seen by the network

1–7 November 2026

Movements a day
537
departures + arrivals
Departures
1,880
total, 7 days
Arrivals
1,880
total, 7 days
Connections
43
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Sun 1 258 253 511
Mon 2 270 283 553
Tue 3 276 278 554
Wed 4 276 277 553
Thu 5 281 284 565
Fri 6 294 276 570
Sat 7 225 229 454

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Madrid MAD Spain 125 flights
  2. Frankfurt am Main FRA Germany 97 flights
  3. Copenhagen CPH Denmark 95 flights
  4. London LHR United Kingdom 91 flights
  5. Milano LIN Italy 88 flights
  6. Roma FCO Italy 87 flights
  7. Munich MUC Germany 86 flights
  8. Vienna VIE Austria 86 flights
  9. Alicante ALC Spain 83 flights
  10. Geneva GVA Switzerland 77 flights
  11. Barcelona BCN Spain 73 flights
  12. Málaga AGP Spain 70 flights
  13. Amsterdam AMS Netherlands 66 flights
  14. Dublin DUB Ireland 65 flights
  15. Zurich ZRH Switzerland 63 flights
  16. Lisbon LIS Portugal 62 flights
27 more connections

Airlines

  1. Brussels AirlinesBEL 1,240
  2. TUI fly BelgiumJAF 233
  3. European Air TransportBCS 210
  4. Vueling AirlinesVLG 108
  5. TransaviaTRA 105
  6. SASSAS 80
  7. easyJet EuropeEJU 78
  8. Turkish AirlinesTHY 60
  9. KLMKLM 58
  10. LOT Polish AirlinesLOT 54

Aircraft

  1. Airbus A320 A320 809
  2. Airbus A319 A319 484
  3. Airbus A320neo A20N 461
  4. Boeing 737-800 B738 331
  5. Boeing 737 MAX 8 B38M 250
  6. A333 172
  7. Airbus A321neo A21N 111
  8. Boeing 767-300 B763 78
  9. Airbus A220-300 BCS3 78
  10. B752 77

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 Brussels 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/50.9014/lon/4.48444/dist/80

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

Get a free key → Quickstart

Frequently asked questions

How can I see live flights over Brussels Airport? +

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

Which airlines fly from Brussels Airport? +

Among the flights our network saw (1–7 November 2026), the most frequent airlines were Brussels Airlines, TUI fly Belgium, European Air Transport, Vueling Airlines and Transavia.

What are the main connections from Brussels Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (1–7 November 2026), both ways: Madrid (MAD, 125), Frankfurt am Main (FRA, 97), Copenhagen (CPH, 95), London (LHR, 91) and Milano (LIN, 88). Only flights whose departure and arrival the network both saw are counted.

Does FlyItalyADSB also track military aircraft around Zaventem? +

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 Brussels Airport? +

Brussels Airport has IATA code BRU and ICAO code EBBR. It lies in Flemish Brabant Province, Belgium, at coordinates 50.9014, 4.48444.

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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