Flight Report

ADS-B radar data captured 1,443 total flight movements at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol on October 1, 2025, across 520 unique aircraft registered to 40 countries. Traffic split nearly evenly between 682 arrivals and 676 departures, with 85 touch-and-go movements rounding out the day. The peak hour was 15:00 CEST, with 108 flights recorded, and the average across all 24 hours was 60.1 flights per hour. Activity was continuous from midnight through 23:59, though the quietest stretch ran from 01:00 through 06:00, where hourly totals stayed in the single digits or low teens. The morning build began sharply at 07:00, with 57 movements, followed by 100 at 08:00. Barcelona (BCN) was the busiest route with 29 combined movements, followed by London City (LCY) at 27 and London Heathrow (LHR) and Copenhagen (CPH) tied at 26 each. ESE was the dominant approach direction with 90 recorded approaches, and ESE also led departure directions at 82. Dutch-registered aircraft made up the largest share of the fleet at 232 of 520 unique aircraft. The fleet included registrations from the United States, Austria, the United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey, Croatia, France, China, and over two dozen other countries. The altitude profile peaked in the 37,000 to 39,000 foot range, with the highest single-band count of 45,155 ADS-B points recorded between 37,000 and 38,000 feet. The highest-altitude flight reached 49,950 feet. Average groundspeed across all tracked flights was 321 knots, with a maximum of 698.9 knots. The longest flight by distance covered 2,429.9 nautical miles and arrived from Narva Airfield (EENA) in Estonia, flown by a Chinese-registered aircraft with tail number B-2769. The dataset contains 1,073,001 individual ADS-B position points in total.