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

Live flights over Melbourne Airport (MEL)

From 23 to 24 October 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 592 departures and 596 arrivals at Melbourne Airport, 594 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

23–24 October 2026

Movements a day
594
departures + arrivals
Departures
592
total, 2 days
Arrivals
596
total, 2 days
Connections
38
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Fri 23 333 330 663
Sat 24 259 266 525

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Sydney SYD 217 flights
  2. Brisbane BNE 99 flights
  3. Adelaide ADL 74 flights
  4. Gold Coast OOL 48 flights
  5. Perth PER 46 flights
  6. Canberra CBR 40 flights
  7. Auckland AKL New Zealand 28 flights
  8. Hong Kong HKG Hong Kong SAR China 18 flights
  9. Maroochydore MCY 17 flights
  10. Williamtown NTL 15 flights
  11. Singapore SIN Singapore 14 flights
  12. Sepang KUL Malaysia 13 flights
  13. Devonport DPO 12 flights
  14. Christchurch CHC New Zealand 11 flights
  15. Bangkok BKK Thailand 10 flights
  16. Hobart HBA 10 flights
22 more connections

Airlines

  1. Virgin AustraliaVOZ 294
  2. Jetstar AirwaysJST 281
  3. QantasQFA 242
  4. QantasLinkQLK 119
  5. Regional ExpressRXA 28
  6. Air New ZealandANZ 24
  7. Singapore AirlinesSIA 23
  8. Cathay PacificCPA 12
  9. Malaysia AirlinesMAS 12
  10. China Eastern AirlinesCES 10

Aircraft

  1. Boeing 737-800 B738 417
  2. Airbus A320 A320 168
  3. Airbus A321neo A21N 94
  4. Boeing 737 MAX 8 B38M 66
  5. Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 DH8D 60
  6. A333 43
  7. Airbus A350-900 A359 41
  8. Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner B789 39
  9. Airbus A320neo A20N 36
  10. Airbus A220-300 BCS3 36

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 (23–24 October 2026), the most frequent airlines were Virgin Australia, Jetstar Airways, Qantas, QantasLink and Regional Express.

What are the main connections from Melbourne Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (23–24 October 2026), both ways: Sydney (SYD, 217), Brisbane (BNE, 99), Adelaide (ADL, 74), Gold Coast (OOL, 48) and Perth (PER, 46). 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.

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Improve coverage over Melbourne

Coverage quality depends on the density of receivers. With a Raspberry Pi and an RTL-SDR antenna you can help track flights over Victoria, Australia.

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