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

Live flights over Brussels Airport (BRU)

From 23 to 24 October 2026 the FlyItalyADSB network saw 713 departures and 716 arrivals at Brussels Airport, 715 movements a day on average. The most frequent connections are Madrid (MAD), Málaga (AGP) and Barcelona (BCN). 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

23–24 October 2026

Movements a day
715
departures + arrivals
Departures
713
total, 2 days
Arrivals
716
total, 2 days
Connections
43
airports, airline flights

Movements per day

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Day Departures Arrivals Total
Fri 23 413 413 826
Sat 24 300 303 603

Connections

airline flights both ways, with departure and arrival both seen

  1. Madrid MAD Spain 36 flights
  2. Málaga AGP Spain 33 flights
  3. Barcelona BCN Spain 32 flights
  4. Roma FCO Italy 30 flights
  5. Alicante ALC Spain 26 flights
  6. Copenhagen CPH Denmark 25 flights
  7. Vienna VIE Austria 24 flights
  8. Milano LIN Italy 22 flights
  9. Munich MUC Germany 21 flights
  10. Lisbon LIS Portugal 21 flights
  11. Frankfurt am Main FRA Germany 20 flights
  12. Geneva GVA Switzerland 20 flights
  13. London LHR United Kingdom 19 flights
  14. Amsterdam AMS Netherlands 19 flights
  15. Paris CDG France 18 flights
  16. Spata-Artemida ATH Greece 18 flights
27 more connections

Airlines

  1. Brussels AirlinesBEL 530
  2. TUI fly BelgiumJAF 70
  3. European Air TransportBCS 49
  4. RyanairRYR 42
  5. Turkish AirlinesTHY 40
  6. Vueling AirlinesVLG 38
  7. TransaviaTRA 34
  8. SASSAS 22
  9. United AirlinesUAL 22
  10. easyJet EuropeEJU 20

Aircraft

  1. Airbus A320 A320 322
  2. Airbus A319 A319 199
  3. Airbus A320neo A20N 191
  4. Boeing 737-800 B738 116
  5. Boeing 737 MAX 8 B38M 80
  6. Airbus A220-300 BCS3 60
  7. A333 53
  8. Airbus A321neo A21N 36
  9. Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner B789 35
  10. Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner B788 26

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?”

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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 (23–24 October 2026), the most frequent airlines were Brussels Airlines, TUI fly Belgium, European Air Transport, Ryanair and Turkish Airlines.

What are the main connections from Brussels Airport? +

The connections with the most flights seen (23–24 October 2026), both ways: Madrid (MAD, 36), Málaga (AGP, 33), Barcelona (BCN, 32), Roma (FCO, 30) and Alicante (ALC, 26). 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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