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All The Airports of London Explained
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All The Airports of London Explained

By far the UK's most populous city, London hosts nearly 175 million passengers each year through numerous airports scattered in and around the city. But collectively, the airports of London have a long, interesting and often intertwined history! Indeed, the city has so much air traffic that almost all airports that primarily serve the city are currently looking to increase their capacity by adding more terminals and more controversially, runways, as seen with London Heathrow. For the purposes of this article, we are defining "airports of London" as any airport that primarily serves the London metropolitan area, including both the City of London and Greater London, rather than airports just based there. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Internati...
What is the language used by Air Traffic Control (ATC)? 5 main languages of the ATC…
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What is the language used by Air Traffic Control (ATC)? 5 main languages of the ATC…

Air Traffic Control (ATC) is the universal means of communication between pilots and the airports which they are using. But what is the language used by Air Traffic Control? By that, we mean, which of the many languages used throughout the world, are used by air traffic controllers? The language used by Air Traffic Control is quite simple: whichever the pilot chooses to use. Normally this is between English and whatever the language is of the place that they are flying to/from. Although English is the only official language. Take this for instance, an American pilot coming in to land at Paris Charles de Gaulle, would instigate the conversation in whichever language he was most comfortable using, whether that was French or English. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}...