air traffic
Planes in transit
Air traffic is the movement of aircraft through a given airspace.
The term appears most often in compounds: air traffic control manages the safe flow of planes, air traffic controller is the person doing that job.
Heavy air traffic causes delays; light air traffic means clear skies for pilots.
- towerTall slender edifice
- airportAviation passenger facility
- runwayPaved path for planes
- holding patternCircular flight awaiting clearance
- controllerDevice directing a system
radio chatter · flight paths · radar · sequencing · flight plans · landing · separation · collision avoidance · near miss · tarmac · ATC · clearance · skyway · altitude · final approach · departure · flow control · takeoff
- traffic typesrush hour, morning commute, evening commute
- Air Travelboarding, airline, flight attendants, takeoff, landing
- aviationaircraft, airports, flying, flight, airplane
- airplane takeoffrunway, liftoff, lift-off, thrust, flaps
- airport authoritysecurity, baggage handling, passenger services, gate assignments, landing fees
- airport noisejet engines, takeoff, landing, aircraft, roar
transportation medium
air trafficroad traffic
Vehicles on roads
maritime traffic · rail traffic · vehicular traffic · pedestrian traffic · shipping traffic
air, traffic, aviation, airspace, aerodrome, air traffic control