Eyes On
Bristol Airport
Scroll down to see live updates. We are tracking whether Bristol Airport are keeping within their planning conditions on flight numbers.
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Flight Data 2026/2027
All Flights
24 hours a day
Annual Limit 85,990
Current total: 0 out of 85,990 flights
0 / 85,990
Shoulder Flights
11–11.30pm & 6–7am
Annual Limit 9,500
Current total: 0 out of 9,500 flights
0 / 9,500
Night Flights
11.30pm–6am
Annual Limit 4,000
Current total: 0 out of 4,000 flights
0 / 4,000
Monthly Data 2026/2027
Flight Data 2025/2026
All Flights
24 hours a day
Annual Limit 85,990
Current total: 0 out of 85,990 flights
0 / 85,990
Shoulder Flights
11–11.30pm & 6–7am
Annual Limit 9,500
Current total: 0 out of 9,500 flights
0 / 9,500
Night Flights
11.30pm–6am
Annual Limit 4,000
Current total: 0 out of 4,000 flights
0 / 4,000
Monthly Data 2025/2026
Flight Data 2024/2025
All Flights
24 hours a day
Annual Limit 85,990
Current total: 0 out of 85,990 flights
0 / 85,990
Shoulder Flights
11–11.30pm & 6–7am
Annual Limit 9,500
Current total: 0 out of 9,500 flights
0 / 9,500
Night Flights
11.30pm–6am
Annual Limit 4,000
Current total: 0 out of 4,000 flights
0 / 4,000
Monthly Data 2024/2025
Flight Data 2023/2024
All Flights
24 hours a day
Annual Limit 85,990
Current total: 0 out of 85,990 flights
0 / 85,990
Shoulder Flights
11–11.30pm & 6–7am
Annual Limit 9,500
Current total: 0 out of 9,500 flights
0 / 9,500
Night Flights
11.30pm–6am
Annual Limit 4,000
Current total: 0 out of 4,000 flights
0 / 4,000
Monthly Data 2023/2024
About
The Project
This website is designed to help us keep our eyes on Bristol Airport.
Permission to expand the airport in 2023 was given subject to legally binding planning conditions. Elsewhere in the country airports have broken their planning conditions so we feel we need to keep a close eye on Bristol Airport.
We are tracking the timing and total numbers of aircraft take offs and landings in each 24 hour period. Each calendar year they cannot legally exceed:
- 85,990 total air traffic movements
- 9,500 shoulder flights (between 11-11.30pm & 6-7am)
- 4000 night flights (between 11.30pm & 6am)
You can also follow the project on ‘X’EyesOnBAL and Instagram and BlueSky
We are using a dark screen background and scrolling (rather than separate pages) on this website to keep it to the lowest possible carbon footprint.
The Project Team
‘Eyes on Bristol Airport’ has been by developed by Bristol Airport Action Network co-ordinating group (BAANcc) in partnership with Grounding Technologies which was funded and supported by Bristol and Bath Creative R+D, a first-of-a-kind collaboration between the region’s four universities – UWE Bristol, Bath Spa, the University of Bath and the University of Bristol – and digital creativity centre Watershed.
A longer term vision for this project is to develop the Eyes On tool nationally, and make it available as open-source software so that other airport groups can hold their local airport to account.
In a separate strand of our work, BAAN is also working with other anti-expansion groups to develop a national ‘No Airport Expansion’ Campaign and raise public awareness of the environmental impact of expanding airports. The campaign is challenging existing planning laws in relation to airport expansion to ensure we have the best chance of retaining a liveable planet.
For more information about the work of Bristol Airport Action Network visit our website, our Facebook Page, X
The Motivation
BAANcc is motivated by concerns about the impacts of increasing flying in Bristol and the UK.
Those living near to the airport and under the flight path can experience direct impacts such as:
- Noise: disturbance of peace and quiet (especially when interrupting sleep at night and in the anti-social ‘shoulder’ periods either side of night flights) which, it has been shown in numerous academic studies, to lead to long term mental and physical health impacts.
- Air pollution: increasing the incidence and severity of chronic diseases such as asthma, lung cancer and heart disease.
- Disruption to rural life: local roads become congested as people travel to and from the airport, and cars park inconsiderately around the site.
However, the greatest concern for us and our followers, is the wider impact of increased fossil fuel usage on the climate crisis: the extra two million passengers permitted under these expansion plans will lead to a million extra tonnes of carbon being emitted each year (for context this is twice the amount produced by all the road transport in Bristol).
The Project Summary film
Grounding Technologies produced this film which summarises the Eyes On project and the impact of the Grounding Technologies funding.
News
Filter:
What’s Happening Now?
If you'd like to read the lastest BAAN newsletter which gives an update on the latest information on Bristol Airport's planning application for 15mppa and their attempted land-grab of Felton Common then please follow this link https://mailchi.mp/27bb61520c1f/whats_happening_nowRead full article
Questions asked at the BAAN / SFC village meeting
Local residents gathered at Chew Valley School on Tuesday 9th June to hear about the pros and cons of Bristol Airport 's proposed expansion that , if agreed, will allow up to 15 million passengers per year to pass through the airport - an increase of almost 50% from the...Read full article
Updated BAAN Alternative Master Plan for Bristol Airport
When Bristol Airport first produced their Master Plan 2040 for consultation purposes about further expansion to 15mppa, BAAN produced a counter argument against expansion in an 'Alternative' Master Plan. After the consultation ended Bristol Airport then dropped the bombshell that they would apply for a CPO (compulsory purchase order) to...Read full article
How to Object to Bristol Airport’s new 15mppa Planning Application
Objecting: North Somerset Council planning control need to know your concerns about Bristol Airport’s expansion plans via the NSC planning consultation. For your comments to be fully considered you need to cite valid ‘material considerations’ in your response. Material considerations are some of the criteria which the local authority has...Read full article
Contact
Email us at eyesonbristolairport@gmail.com or use the contact form.
Get Involved
Click the link to fill in our survey: Survey
Email eyesonbristolairport@gmail.com with the strapline ‘add me to the mailing list’. We send out regular mailshots about the overall work of Bristol Airport Action Network and the specific Eyes On Bristol Airport project.
It is useful to us for our democratic representatives to be aware of our campaign and ideally to put their support behind it. Your local voice is critical in supporting our project.
Contact your local councillor
In North Somerset, B&NES, Bristol, or South Gloucestershire
Contact your MP
- wera.hobhouse.mp@parliament.uk Wera Hobhouse. Lib Dem (Bath) office@werahobhouse.co.uk
- sadik.alhassan.mp@parliament.uk Sadik Al-Hussan. Labour (North Somerset)
- daniel.aldridge.mp@parliament.uk Dan Aldridge. Labour (W-S-M).
- dan.norris.mp@parliament.uk Dan Norris. Labour (North East Somerset)
- carla.denyer.mp@parliament.uk Carla Denyer. Green Party (Bristol Central).
- karin.smyth.mp@parliament.uk Karin Smyth. Labour (Bristol South).
Contact the West of England Combined Authority
Contact the Department for Transport
Make a complaint to the Department for Transport here.
Write to the Secretary of State for Transport: Heidi Alexander heidi.alexander.mp@parliament.uk
We hold a range of events which may be of interest to Eyes On followers and these can be found in the News section.
Flight Radar 24 enables you to track a particular plane in real time. This may provide evidence of an issue for a complaint.
If you are unhappy with any area of the Bristol Airport’s delivery you can make a complaint, and the airport has a responsibility to publish the number of complaints received on a regular basis.
You can either complain about a particular flight (was it more noisy or disruptive than usual) or make a general complaint about any area (about their environmental plans, their future goals, their presentation of material -greenwash?) or about any aspect of their operations now or in the future.
Let us know your ideas and make your own offers of help by emailing eyesonbristolairport@gmail.com
EYES ON NATIONAL
We have a vision to make this tracking tool available to other local airport groups, to help them hold their local airport to account in following its planning conditions.
Our motivation for doing this was hearing how GALBA revealed that Leeds Bradford had exceeded their permitted Night Flights.
If you would like to find out more about how to adapt the Eyes On tool to your local area please get in touch.