Arrivals
Live arrival times, status, terminal and baggage belt are on the arrivals page.
BUF
Airport information
Buffalo Niagara International Airport
Buffalo, United StatesIATA: BUFICAO: KBUF
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Departures
Live departure times, status, terminal and gate are on the departures page.
Live radar
Live radar around the airport
View current aircraft positions around this airport and find a flight directly on the map.
The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
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.
2 runways · Longest runway: 8,829 ft
- 05/238,829 ft · heading 44/224 degrees
- 14/327,161 ft · heading 127/307 degrees
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.
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Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
ORDUnited States
Chicago
- Distance
- 472 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 20m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · +6
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Envoy Air · GoJet Airlines LLC · Republic Airways · SkyWest Airlines · United Airlines · UPS Airlines
JFKUnited States
New York
- Distance
- 301 mi
- Estimated duration
- 59m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · +5
American Airlines · Delta Air Lines · Endeavor Air · JetBlue · New York State Police · Republic Airways · UPS Airlines
LGAUnited States
New York
- Distance
- 291 mi
- Estimated duration
- 56m
- Airlines
American Airlines · Endeavor Air · +5
American Airlines · Endeavor Air · JetBlue · New York State Police · Republic Airways · Southwest Airlines · Tradewind Aviation
BWIUnited States
Baltimore
- Distance
- 281 mi
- Estimated duration
- 49m
- Airlines
GlobalX · Hera Flight · +4
GlobalX · Hera Flight · Key Lime Air · Latitude Air Ambulance · Southwest Airlines · UPS Airlines
Airports nearby
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.
- Niagara FallsNiagara Falls International AirportIAG16 mi12 destinations
- RochesterFrederick Douglass Greater Rochester International AirportROC55 mi43 destinations
- TorontoBilly Bishop Toronto City AirportYTZ58 mi31 destinations
- HamiltonJohn C. Munro Hamilton International AirportYHM63 mi45 destinations
- TorontoToronto Pearson International AirportYYZ68 mi161 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- Buffalo Niagara International Airport
- City and country
- Buffalo, United States
- IATA / ICAO
- BUF / KBUF
- Time zone
- America/New_York
- Category
- Regional airport
BUF Airport: Buffalo Niagara International Flight Status
Buffalo Niagara International Airport, known by its IATA code BUF and its ICAO code KBUF, is a large airport for the city of Buffalo in the United States. It sits at 42.9405 degrees north and 78.7322 degrees west, and in our tracking BUF airport carries an average traffic level. The live radar on this page shows the aircraft arriving at and departing from BUF as it happens, and the arrivals and departures pages linked above the radar list today's flights with their times and status. Three other airports in our data lie within 88 km of BUF, the closest just 25 km away, and three airlines appeared in our 30-day measurement at the airport, led by JetBlue.
Thirty days of our own traffic data at BUF
For 30 days we ran our own reception measurement at Buffalo Niagara. Over that period our data averaged 3.0 aircraft observations per day near the airport, which is the figure behind the average traffic level mentioned above. The busiest window in those 30 days fell between 21:00 and 23:00, a time recorded in UTC, because our measurement runs on the UTC clock rather than on Buffalo local time; convert it before you set it against an evening at the airport. Both numbers come from the same 30-day run and describe one snapshot of BUF.
Airlines in our BUF data
Three airlines appeared in our 30-day data at Buffalo Niagara. JetBlue led the BUF count with 10 observations; for its flights, see JetBlue flight status. American Airlines followed with 8, listed under American Airlines flight status. Southwest Airlines logged 7 during the same 30 days; its page is Southwest Airlines flight status. The three counts sit close together, so no single airline dominates what we received at BUF. Those are measurements over the 30-day window, not a share of all traffic at the airport.
Nearby airports: Niagara Falls and Rochester
BUF is not the only airport in its region. The closest alternative in our dataset is Niagara Falls International Airport, 25 km from Buffalo Niagara, and that short distance makes it the natural second airport to watch for anyone flying in or out of Buffalo. Niagara District Airport follows at 45 km. Considerably farther out, at 88 km, lies Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester International Airport, which widens the set of alternatives well beyond the city itself. With two of the three within 45 km, a diversion or a schedule change rarely leaves a Buffalo traveler without a nearby alternative to check. For airports outside the Buffalo region, our airport overview is the place to start.