Raleigh-Durham International Airport

RDU Airport: Raleigh-Durham International flight status

Raleigh-Durham International Airport (IATA: RDU, ICAO: KRDU) serves Raleigh/Durham in the United States from a position at 35.8787 north, 78.7873 west. Travelers know it simply as RDU airport, and the live radar near the top of this page shows the aircraft arriving there and departing from it right now, with the flight-by-flight arrivals and departures pages linked above it. The rest of this text comes from our own data: our airport database files RDU in the large airport class, while our reception data currently places its traffic at a moderate level. The sections that follow describe the longer pattern behind that live traffic, drawn from 30 days of our own measurements.

The RDU traffic picture in our 30-day measurement

Across the past 30 days, our receivers logged an average of 6.0 aircraft observations per day near RDU. A moderate level in our data means RDU is neither among the quietest nor among the busiest fields we measure; the 6.0 figure is the number behind that label. The busiest stretch of the day in that same period was the window from 20:00 to 22:00, measured on the UTC clock. Because that clock is UTC, the window does not translate directly to local Raleigh/Durham time. Both figures describe what our own equipment actually received over those 30 days, not a published schedule, so they can differ from what an airline or the airport itself reports. For the flight you are meeting or catching today, the arrivals and departures pages linked above the radar remain the reference; the measurement is there to show the shape of a typical month at this airport.

Airlines in our RDU measurement

Our 30-day measurement puts three carriers at the top of the RDU count. Delta Air Lines leads with 20 observations, American Airlines follows at 17, and Southwest Airlines recorded 15. Those numbers cover only these three carriers, not the airport as a whole, and they are counts from our own reception measurement rather than schedule data. Use the airline pages when you follow one of these carriers across several airports; for a single flight at RDU, the departures or arrivals page linked above the radar is the quicker route.

Nearby airports in our database

Our database lists three other fields in the wider region around Raleigh/Durham, each with its measured distance from RDU. The nearest is Danville Regional Airport at 92 km. Seymour Johnson Air Force Base follows at 96 km, so Danville and Seymour Johnson sit almost equally far from RDU, with only a few kilometers between them. The third, at 106 km, is Piedmont Triad International Airport, the farthest of the three. All three distances are the values in our database and say nothing about road connections or travel time, so treat them as a first orientation rather than a rebooking plan.