Flight Report

These statistics capture one full day of ADS-B traffic at Charles de Gaulle International Airport (CDG/LFPG) on March 8, 2024, the airport's 50th anniversary of opening to commercial aviation. The dataset covers 1,002 total movements across 24 hours: 602 arrivals, 394 departures, and 6 touch-and-gos, involving 471 unique aircraft. Traffic ran continuously from 00:00 to 23:59 CET. The peak hour was 07:00, which recorded 81 movements, 73 of them arrivals. A secondary peak occurred at 11:00 with 77 total movements. The quietest period fell between 02:00 and 04:00, bottoming out at a single movement in hour 03. The busiest route pairing by total movements was Kaynardzha Airfield (LBKJ), driven almost entirely by 28 arrivals. Barcelona (BCN) ranked second with 24 total movements, followed by London Heathrow (LHR) at 21, Milan Malpensa (MXP) at 18, and Rome Fiumicino (FCO) at 17. Approach directions were most concentrated from ESE (70), E (66), and SE (61). Departures followed a similar spread, with ESE (56), S (43), and SE (40) leading. French-registered aircraft made up the largest share of the fleet at 182, followed by Austrian (50), unclassified (47), and US-registered (46). Altitude data across 405,289 ADS-B points shows the heaviest concentration between 35,000 and 38,000 feet, with the 35,000-36,000 ft band alone accounting for 31,934 data points. The average observed altitude was 21,686 ft, and the highest recorded was 42,475 ft, logged by French-registered F-HTYR on an arrival from Corfu (CFU). The longest tracked departure covered 1,944.6 nautical miles over 227.5 minutes, flown by US-registered N897FD. The shortest arrival was a 19.5 nm, 7-minute flight from Pontoise-Cormeilles (POX). Combined, the day's flights accumulated 591,972 nautical miles with an average leg distance of 590.8 nm and average duration of 91.1 minutes.