LHBP – Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport

Tier A (measured) · 1,220 movements in 2026 · milestones measured from APDF

Excellent coverage. Nearly every movement in 2026 is picked up, and 95% of the position reports expected while taxiing out actually arrive. Aircraft are tracked essentially throughout their time on the ground, so surface events can be derived with confidence.

period departures arrivals Departures seen (%) Arrivals seen (%) Coverage index
2026 607 613 99.7% 99.5% 0.975
2025 572 570 98.4% 98.8% 0.978
2024 542 542 99.1% 98.7% 0.958

Departures

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

Distribution of off_s. Zero is take-off. 111 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 30 below / 22 above, 2025: 31 below / 2 above, 2024: 23 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 605 -18.2 -10.5 -6.1
2025 563 -18.3 -10.9 -8.0
2024 537 -16.4 -10.0 -5.8
delta 2026-2025 +0.1 +0.4 +2.0

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 605 0.824 0.953 0.998
2025 563 0.875 0.991 1.006
2024 537 0.741 0.931 0.997
delta 2026-2025 -0.051 -0.038 -0.007

Arrivals

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

Distribution of land_s. Zero is landing. 156 movement(s) fall outside +/-30 min and are excluded from the plot (2026: 39 below / 34 above, 2025: 11 below / 33 above, 2024: 11 below / 28 above). They are included in every percentile below.

When the track ends, relative to landing (minutes)

period n p10 p50 p90
2026 610 +5.9 +9.0 +14.5
2025 563 +7.8 +9.7 +15.2
2024 535 +6.9 +8.9 +13.3
delta 2026-2025 -1.9 -0.7 -0.7

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 609 1.000 1.005 1.015
2025 562 0.982 0.994 1.000
2024 532 1.000 1.006 1.018
delta 2026-2025 0.018 0.011 0.015

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 0.975 0.590 91
Departures seen (%) 99.7% 99.7% 48
Taxi-out received (median) 0.953 0.191 89
Taxi-in received (median) 1.005 1.000 98
Track start vs take-off (min, median) -10.5 -1.8 16
Track end vs landing (min, median) +9.0 +7.2 64

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 83.4% 14.2% 2.1%
2026 arrivals 82.5% 14.8% 2.1%
2025 departures 89.2% 7.7% 1.6%
2025 arrivals 87.4% 9.8% 1.6%
2024 departures 92.4% 5.5% 1.1%
2024 arrivals 91.5% 6.1% 1.1%

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 607 605 613 610 0 10.9 4.2
2025 572 563 570 563 0 10.7 4.5
2024 542 537 542 535 0 10.8 3.9

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