Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
Airport information
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
What do the colors mean?
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
3 runways · Longest runway: 13,793 ft
We currently see no traffic on approach or just after takeoff. That happens at a quiet airport or in the middle of the night.
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Practical
Transport by bus and taxi; parking at the airport; picking someone up or dropping them off.
Fly direct
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
Airport facts
Albuquerque International Sunport is the airport behind the code ABQ, with KABQ as its ICAO identifier, and it serves the city of Albuquerque in the United States. Located at 35.04 north and 106.6089 west, the Sunport is classified as a large airport in our database, and the traffic level we record there is average. The live radar on this page shows what is moving in the air around ABQ airport right now, and the arrivals and departures pages linked above it list each flight with its times and status, while the text below explains how busy the Sunport runs in our own data and which carriers dominate the aircraft we observe there.
The figures on this page come from our own reception measurement, which logged aircraft near Albuquerque International Sunport for 30 days. Across that period, our receivers picked up an average of 14.7 aircraft observations per day near ABQ, a per-day figure that lines up with the average traffic level we assign the Sunport. Every number in this section comes from that single 30-day measurement, so it reflects what our equipment received rather than an official tally.
The busiest window in the same measurement fell between 01:00 and 03:00 on the measurement clock, which runs in UTC. That detail matters if you want to match our numbers to the times on the arrivals and departures pages: convert the UTC window to Albuquerque's local time first, because the measurement clock and the clock at the Sunport do not read the same.
Three airlines stood out among the aircraft our receivers logged near Albuquerque during those 30 days. Southwest Airlines was the most visible carrier in that data, with 170 observations near ABQ; if you are flying Southwest into or out of Albuquerque, the Southwest Airlines flight status page is the next stop. United Airlines appeared 29 times in the same 30-day window at the Sunport, and its flights have their own United Airlines flight status page. American Airlines was logged 23 times at the Sunport, with the American Airlines flight status page as its counterpart on this site.
If Albuquerque International Sunport does not fit your plans, our database lists three alternatives in the region. Santa Fe Municipal Airport lies 80 km from the Sunport and is the closest option we track around ABQ. Taos Regional Airport sits farther out at 178 km from the Sunport. The third and most distant is Gallup Municipal Airport at 205 km from the Sunport. For a wider view of the network ABQ is part of, browse our airport overview.