The Barcelona-El Prat flight archive: every recorded BCN flight, day by day and month by month

Opening a past day

Pick a date in the date box, choose arrivals or departures as the flight type and open the selected flights. To browse instead, go down to the month cards: each one says whether the month is closed, still in progress or only partly covered, and counts its complete and partial dates, its arrivals, its departures and the total. Today's flights stay on the live arrivals and departures boards, and yesterday has a page of its own.

Complete, partial, in progress, unknown

The coverage block at the top gives the available period, from the first to the last date, and when the archive was last updated; below it sit the counts of past dates, verified complete dates, partial dates and recorded flights. A chart then shows the last 30 archive dates, one bar each, labelled by completeness; a day missing from the archive gets no bar.

How a closed day labels each flight

Live labels such as "In the air" disappear once a day is over. Flights that finished show "Landed" or "Departed"; the label becomes "Delayed" when the finish came more than 15 minutes behind schedule or the data provider flagged a delay, and "Cancelled" when the flight never went. If nobody captured how a flight ended, the row reads "Final status unavailable" and adds the last status that was recorded. The filters use the same groups: recorded, delayed, cancelled and final status unavailable.

The daily boards use a lower bar of 5 minutes, so a landing 10 minutes behind schedule shows "10 min late" on yesterday's board but "Landed" in the archive. The archive can also differ from the airline's own operational record.

What a past day is good for

Use it to check a trip you took: when the aircraft really left or landed, and how late. Before booking, a few past weekdays show which airlines flew a route, though past flights are not a timetable. The terminal and gate show only if the recorded data included them, and for a future flight you should confirm the terminal with the airline. For trends across complete days, see daily traffic, delays and on-time performance.