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air-traffic control air traffic controllers A commercial airplane lands on a runway in front of the tall, white airport traffic control tower at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport. Airport control tower in the foreground with a blue and white jet ascending into the sky in the background. Air traffic control tower
See how air traffic controllers at Frankfurt Airport, Germany manage the rush hour traffic in the skies
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air-traffic control An air traffic control tower at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.

air-traffic control

Also known as: ATC, air traffic control
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air-traffic control, the supervision of the movements of all aircraft, both in the air and on the ground, in the vicinity of an airport. See traffic control.