air traffic

noun

1. aircraft moving in flight or on airport runways.

air traffic

noun

1. the organized movement of aircraft within a given space
2. the passengers, cargo, or mail carried by aircraft

Word History and Origins

Origin of air traffic¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

Pilot Ara Zobayan should have steadied the helicopter, climbed slowly and declared an emergency to get help from air traffic controllers, National Transportation Safety Board investigators said Tuesday.

From Washington Post

Eurocontrol, the region’s air traffic control agency, said last week that flights could still be down by between 55% and 70% from 2019 levels in June.

From Fortune

The job involves overseeing billions of dollars in highway construction funds, thousands of air traffic controllers and ensuring the safety of everything from jet planes to pipelines.

From Washington Post

The air traffic controllerIf the thought of managing air traffic into and out of a very busy airport like Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta sounds tough to you, you’d be right.

From Popular-Science

It’s an unprecedented task, made more difficult by the carriers’ diminished state after culling jobs, routes and aircraft to survive a crisis that’s reduced air traffic globally by an estimated 61% this year.

From Fortune

That apparently includes some members of the management of the airport itself and some air traffic controllers.

From The Daily Beast

The pilot asked air-traffic control for permission to climb from 32,000 to 38,000 feet to avoid the bad weather.

From The Daily Beast

The pilot had earlier called air-traffic control reporting heavy clouds and asked to move up to 38,000 feet from 32,000 feet.

From The Daily Beast

Air traffic controllers and pilots together take great care not to fly in conditions that can jeopardize an airplane.

From The Daily Beast

The flight path remained close to the Indonesian archipelago, well within what is the normal reach of air traffic control radar.

From The Daily Beast

Surrounding air traffic was light, and the tour proceeded smoothly eastward; over the Great Divide, and then swung north.

From Project Gutenberg

In any event, we have taken the matter out of the hands of the Air Traffic Bureau.

From Project Gutenberg

The huge airport, now unused on account of the complete cessation of air traffic, was closed to the public.

From Project Gutenberg

The air traffic was heavy and the field was a beehive of activity.

From Project Gutenberg

He was a little nervous because there was more air traffic around him than he had ever seen before.

From Project Gutenberg