easyJet flight tracker: follow any easyJet flight live

You can track any easyJet flight live on the radar above. Enter the flight number from your booking confirmation, for example U2 8021, and the easyJet flight tracker shows the aircraft’s current position, altitude, speed and route, updated in real time from take-off to landing. It runs on the same live flight radar that covers the whole of the UK. easyJet operates well over a thousand flights a day in the summer schedule and around half of them touch a British airport, so at almost any moment there are dozens of easyJet aircraft over the UK to watch. The tracker is just as useful before departure: it shows where your incoming aircraft is, and that is the single best predictor of whether your flight will leave on time.

U2 or EZY: how to read an easyJet flight number

Everything easyJet sends you uses the same format: U2 followed by up to four digits. Your booking confirmation, your boarding pass and the airport departure board all show the flight as, say, U2 8021, because U2 is easyJet’s code in the booking systems. That U2 number is what you type into the tracker.

On the radar itself you will often see something different, and it confuses almost everyone the first time. Aircraft broadcast their radio callsign rather than the ticket number, and easyJet flies under three of them: EZY for easyJet UK, EJU for easyJet Europe, whose aircraft are registered in Austria, and EZS for easyJet Switzerland. The digits frequently differ too. To stop two similar-sounding flights being mixed up on the radio, many services fly with a scrambled callsign such as EZY47PT, which bears no resemblance to the number on your ticket. So the EZY47PT you spot over the Channel can perfectly well be your U2 8021. easyJet is not the only airline that does this: Ryanair scrambles its RYR callsigns in exactly the same way, as our Ryanair flight tracker explains. You do not have to untangle any of it yourself: search by the U2 number and the tracker matches the callsign for you.

easyJet flight status: is my flight on time?

The board and the app give you a status; the radar tells you why. With easyJet, the time of day says more than the status label does. Each aircraft sleeps at its base and then flies a tight chain of four to eight short flights, with turnarounds of about half an hour. The first wave out of Gatwick, Luton, Bristol and Manchester, roughly between 06:00 and 08:00, is by far the most punctual, because the aircraft is already sitting on the stand. From then on, every delay is carried into the next link of the chain, and a 30-minute turnaround leaves little room to claw it back. That is why the same route can leave on time at 07:00 and 40 minutes late at 21:00.

This is where tracking beats refreshing the app. Look up your flight a few hours ahead and check the incoming aircraft: if it is still on the ground two countries away when it should be airborne, your delay is already in the making, whatever the board says. On summer afternoons the usual suspects are French air traffic control restrictions and thunderstorms, and Gatwick, which runs a packed schedule on a single runway, feels both sooner than most airports.

easyJet’s fleet and UK bases

easyJet is an all-Airbus airline. The group flies around 340 aircraft, all from one family: the A319 with 156 seats, the A320 with 180 to 186, and the newer A321neo with 235, which easyJet puts on its busiest routes. The registration on the aircraft tells you which arm of the company you are looking at: G- registrations belong to easyJet UK, OE- to easyJet Europe and HB- to easyJet Switzerland.

Gatwick is easyJet’s largest base anywhere, and easyJet is comfortably the biggest airline at the airport: see our Gatwick departures board for the full schedule. Luton is the company’s home, with its head office in Hangar 89 beside the runway and its own Luton departures board here. The other UK bases are Bristol, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast International, and in March 2026 easyJet opened a base at Newcastle with three aircraft. If you want to watch the operation at its densest, put the easyJet flight tracker over Gatwick between 06:00 and 08:00 and watch the first wave fan out across Europe.

Frequently asked questions

What happens at the gate if my cabin bag is too big?

Expect the bag sizer to be used; easyJet gate staff check more consistently than most airlines. Everyone may bring a small under-seat bag of up to 45 x 36 x 20 cm for free. The larger overhead cabin bag is only included if you have booked it, hold an easyJet Plus card or sit in an Up Front or Extra Legroom seat. A bag that does not fit the sizer at the gate goes into the hold for a fee that is considerably higher than the price of booking the larger bag in advance, so measure at home, not at the gate.

Why can I not find my flight number on the radar?

Because the aircraft broadcasts its callsign, not your ticket number. easyJet flights appear as EZY, EJU or EZS, often with scrambled digits such as EZY47PT. Search this site by your U2 number instead and the tracker makes the match for you.

Does easyJet fly from Heathrow?

No. easyJet’s two big London airports are Gatwick, its largest base, and Luton, its home, and it also flies from Stansted and Southend. A booking that just says London can therefore mean any of four airports on different sides of the city, so check which one your confirmation names before you set off.

Am I entitled to compensation if my easyJet flight is delayed?

Under UK law you are owed compensation if you arrive 3 hours late or more and the cause was within easyJet’s control: £220 on routes up to 1,500 km, £350 between 1,500 and 3,500 km and £520 beyond that, claimed through easyJet’s own claims page. Weather and air traffic control restrictions do not qualify. The tracker helps you understand a delay: it shows the inbound aircraft and where the time was lost, even if the airline decides what caused it.