Belfast International (BFS): road traffic and approach roads

Belfast International (IATA BFS, ICAO EGAA) is one of the 28 airports UK Live Traffic watches. The live map shows the aircraft arriving, holding and leaving it right now; this page is about the roads.

Its traffic joins the main roads at A57 / Airport Road (40%), A6 / Dublin Road (30%) and M1 J9 (30%). Roughly 78 in every 100 arriving passengers leave by car, taxi or hire car (our own estimate, from the public transport links each airport has to the towns round it), so a busy landing raises traffic on these roads over the hour that follows. On the live map, tapping the airport and then its Road forecast estimates the vehicles that the aircraft which have just landed should put on each junction over the next 90 minutes.

Open Belfast International on the live map

Codes
BFS / EGAA
Plus Code
9C6MMQ5M+2M
Approach junctions
A57 / Airport Road, A6 / Dublin Road, M1 J9
Leaving by car or taxi
about 78% of arriving passengers

How busy the approach roads usually are

RoadWeekdays 03:00Weekdays 08:00Weekdays 12:00Weekdays 17:00Weekdays 21:00Saturday 12:00Sunday 12:00
A57 / Airport RoadNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count point
A6 / Dublin RoadNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count point
M1 J9No count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count pointNo count point

Typical for the hour of the week, from traffic counts: not live. The live map has what is happening now.

Other airports nearby

Ports nearby

Where the figures come from

  • Road traffic: Department for Transport road traffic counts (Open Government Licence v3.0), spread over the week with DfT's national hourly pattern.
  • Roads and junctions: OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL), routed with Valhalla.