EDDB – Berlin Brandenburg Airport

Tier A (measured) · 1,562 movements in 2026 · milestones measured from APDF

Partial coverage. Nearly every movement in 2026 is picked up, and 4% of the position reports expected while taxiing out actually arrive. Almost nothing is received while aircraft are on the ground. They become visible only once airborne, so no surface event can be derived at this aerodrome.

period departures arrivals Departures seen (%) Arrivals seen (%) Coverage index
2026 774 788 98.2% 98.2% 0.509
2025 869 835 98.0% 97.6% 0.526
2024 934 938 99.5% 99.6% 0.721

Departures

off_s is good when negative – the track began before take-off.

Distribution of off_s. Zero is take-off. 92 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 6 below / 46 above, 2025: 13 below / 6 above, 2024: 18 below / 3 above). They are included in every percentile below.

When the track starts, relative to take-off (minutes)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 760 -9.7 -0.2 +0.3
2025 852 -9.6 -0.6 +0.2
2024 929 -12.5 -4.8 +0.1
delta 2026-2025 -0.1 +0.5 +0.1

How much of the taxi-out was observed, across all movements. The dashed line is every aerodrome pooled; a curve to the right of it is better, because more of this aerodrome’s movements were well observed.

How much of the taxi-out was received (1.00 = every expected report arrived)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 760 0.000 0.042 0.919
2025 852 0.000 0.079 0.830
2024 929 0.000 0.451 0.994
delta 2026-2025 0.000 -0.036 0.089

Arrivals

land_s is good when positive – the track ran on past landing.

Distribution of land_s. Zero is landing. 81 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 37 below / 9 above, 2025: 9 below / 9 above, 2024: 2 below / 15 above). They are included in every percentile below.

When the track ends, relative to landing (minutes)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 774 +3.1 +7.3 +10.2
2025 815 +4.9 +7.8 +10.4
2024 934 +6.3 +8.6 +11.4
delta 2026-2025 -1.8 -0.5 -0.2

How much of the taxi-in was observed, across all movements. The dashed line is every aerodrome pooled; a curve to the right of it is better, because more of this aerodrome’s movements were well observed.

How much of the taxi-in was received (1.00 = every expected report arrived)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 773 0.719 0.993 1.008
2025 815 0.703 0.997 1.010
2024 933 0.897 0.997 1.007
delta 2026-2025 0.016 -0.004 -0.002

Where the coverage is

Each position report is placed on a hexagonal grid over the aerodrome, on a log colour scale: one apron cell can hold thousands of reports while a runway threshold holds tens. Empty ground is surface the receivers do not reach.

Use the legend to add the airborne layer and any example flights. Scroll to zoom.

Against the fleet

How this aerodrome compares with the 89 aerodromes with measured milestones. Typical aerodrome is the median across all of them. Rank is this aerodrome’s position among them, 0 (lowest) to 100 (highest).

measure this aerodrome typical aerodrome rank (0–100)
Coverage index 0.509 0.590 44
Departures seen (%) 98.2% 99.7% 17
Taxi-out received (median) 0.042 0.191 44
Taxi-in received (median) 0.993 1.000 34
Track start vs take-off (min, median) -0.2 -1.8 52
Track end vs landing (min, median) +7.3 +7.2 51

Higher rank is better everywhere except track start vs take-off, where a low value is the good case.

Was each flight tracked as one flight?

A poor coverage number can mean the receivers heard nothing, or that the algorithm cut the flight’s track up. This separates them.

period One flight, one track (%) Split across tracks (%) Merged with another flight (%)
2026 departures 86.2% 11.1% 0.9%
2026 arrivals 85.9% 11.4% 0.9%
2025 departures 89.5% 7.2% 1.3%
2025 arrivals 91.4% 5.3% 1.0%
2024 departures 94.2% 4.4% 0.9%
2024 arrivals 95.5% 3.2% 0.9%

The underlying counts

Everything above is derived from these. Typical taxi times are context: the same 200 seconds of reception is most of a short taxi and a fraction of a long one.

period Departures Departures seen Arrivals Arrivals seen Unusable reference rows Typical taxi-out (min) Typical taxi-in (min)
2026 774 760 788 774 0 9.7 5.3
2025 869 852 835 815 0 10.1 5.7
2024 934 929 938 934 0 10.3 5.5

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