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ATC

NOUN
air traffic control
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Its revenues come from its customers paying TVA for what they use—exactly as airlines and business jets do worldwide with ATC utilities.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

The FAA employs around 45,000 people, of which ATC staff number about 14,000.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2025

“Wow! In the years I’ve been doing this, I’ve never heard a ATC controller tell a plane to ‘Stop, stop, stop,’” he says in the video.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 2024

ATC media officials didn’t immediately respond to emails sent after the hearing seeking comment.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 22, 2024

It wasn’t until the third holding pattern southwest of Kennedy Airport that Klotz told ATC that he didn’t think the plane had enough fuel to reach an alternative airport.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell




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