How to Use air traffic control in a Sentence

air traffic control

noun

• Things like weather or air traffic control flow programs do not count against the airline.
  — Zach Wichter, USA TODAY, 27 Nov. 2024
• The conversation over air traffic control radio was calmer, but no less dire.
  — Author: Avi Selk, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Jan. 2018
• Any shutdown is unlikely to hamper vital government services such as air traffic control.
  — Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Jan. 2018
• That extension was left out of the deal as the House first attempts to pass a long-term FAA extension that would privatize air traffic control.
  — Laura Litvan, Bloomberg.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• These were the last words air traffic control heard from Murcia.
  — Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
• In the mile-high air of Denver, air traffic control might be needed to track his blasts.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021
• Planes were checking in with air traffic control to learn their ground speed.
  — Michael S. Rosenwald, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
• Leipelt, 20, of San Jose called air traffic control for help and circled over the two people in the water.
  — NBC News, 22 Aug. 2019
• In the short-term, the focus for air traffic control staff is the safety of travelers on the move through the holidays.
  — Lori Aratani, Washington Post, 21 Nov. 2023
• How will air traffic control adapt to a world with rockets blasting off as often as planes take to the skies?
  — Charlie Wood, Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2020
• The flight's captain stopped the plane and notified air traffic control.
  — Brieanna J. Frank, The Arizona Republic, 4 Dec. 2021
• It’s been since about the 1950s since the U.S. air traffic control system was updated, and a lot has happened since then.
  — Tim McDonnell, Quartz, 16 Nov. 2022
• Ryanair said air traffic control in Belarus radioed the flight crew that a bomb was onboard and told it to land in Minsk.
  — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
• The same math, known as the Schmidt-Kalman filter, is used today to help improve the efficient of air traffic control.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 July 2019
• What about the computers in charge of an air traffic control system?
  — Stephen C. George, Discover Magazine, 29 May 2023
• The base's air traffic control tower clears Death 21 for takeoff.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 25 June 2018
• Tune your radio to 88.5 FM to listen in on chatter from the air traffic control tower.
  — Alison Sherwood, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5 June 2019
• Local air traffic control called the crew, but did not receive a reply.
  — Michelle Stoddart, ABC News, 20 Apr. 2022
• The airport is no longer bombed out and players can use the second floor to better contest snipers in the air traffic control tower.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2021
• The waiver was first granted in the spring due to an air traffic control staffing shortage and is currently set to expire on Sept. 15.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 8 Aug. 2023
• That allows the controller to change the flight path at the request of air traffic control, and keep an eye on the plane’s surroundings using cameras on board.
  — Gregory Barber, Wired, 20 Aug. 2020
• Nearing the midway point of the fourth quarter, Erving was cleared for takeoff by air traffic control at PHL.
  — Jeff Zillgitt, USA TODAY, 18 Feb. 2022
• Much like an air traffic control center, the Marine Exchange organizes the movement of vessels in and out of the ports.
  — Los Angeles Times, 6 Oct. 2021
• The recorder will include any conversations in the cockpit and with air traffic control.
  — Jennifer Emily, Dallas News, 2 July 2019
• The pilots were in contact with oceanic air traffic control.
  — William Langewiesche, The Atlantic, 21 June 2018
• Hear the pilot of Southwest flight 1380 communicate with air traffic control after one of the engines of the plane fails.
  — Christopher Spata, miamiherald, 20 Apr. 2018
• Robert Lind asked permission from air traffic control to descend to 2,500 feet.
  — Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, 24 May 2018
• Smoke filled the plane as the pilots sent out an emergency call to air traffic control to request to land at the nearest available airport.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 11 Apr. 2018
• The deviation put the ship outside the air traffic control clearance area.
  — Marcia Dunn, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Sep. 2021
• The airline spokesperson said the Alaska aircraft, which was on its way to Seattle, had received clearance for takeoff from air traffic control.
  — Stepheny Price, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Dec 2024