English: Air Traffic Control
French: Contrôle du trafic aérien
Air Traffic Control, often abbreviated to ATC in English, is the control tower of an airport that, as the name suggests, controls the air traffic of planes departing from and arriving at the airport. When the weather deteriorates, ATC might make decisions to delay certain flights for safety. ATC gives each flight take-off and landing authorization.
As such, when delays happen, you may need to tell your passengers that ATC at the arrival airport has not given your flight the authorization to take off from the departure airport yet (perhaps because of bad weather at the arrival airport.) Or you may be en route to the arrival airport but ATC slows your flight down to regulate the traffic.
Formally, there are two expressions in French for “Air Traffic Control”.
Contrôle (m)=Control
Trafic (m)=Traffic
Aérien=Air
Contrôle du trafic aérien=Air Traffic Control
Circulation (f)=Circulation, Traffic
Alternatively, the word ‘’circulation’’ can also mean “traffic” or “circulation”, so in French, ATC can also be translated as “Contrôle de la circulation aérienne”.
The word “aérien/aérienne” is not the easiest word to pronounce for most French learners and thus Module 4 of our Canadian French for Flight Attendants audio course will use a different French expression for “ATC”.
Module 3 of Canadian French for Flight Attendants is available. Learn the French that flight attendants commonly use on the job: greet passengers, stow bags, drink and meal orders, duty-free service, seat changes, wheelchair requests, weather announcements and much more!
Modules 1 and 2: French basics and pass your flight attendant French test.
Flight Attendant Souvenirs. Souvenirs d’un agent de bord. Hiroshima, Japan. February 2015. Hiroshima, Japon. Février 2015. Making my way down south, I stopped in Hiroshima. This is the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, built very close to where the atomic bomb detonated in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The dome was the only structure left standing near the detonation location. It used to be the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall.
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