The phrase "air traffic manager" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a professional responsible for overseeing and coordinating air traffic operations at an airport or within a specific airspace.
Example: "The air traffic manager ensured that all flights were safely guided during the busy holiday season."
Alternatives: "air traffic controller" or "aviation traffic supervisor".
Ed McKenna, the current air traffic manager, would not disclose any of the physical security enhancements except one.
Ms. Zugay, however, is the acting air traffic manager at the F.A.A.'s Tampa Air Traffic Control Tower.
"From an engineering and mechanical standpoint, it was difficult to maintain," said Leo Prusak, the F.A.A.'s manager of tactical operations for the Northeast, who was the air traffic manager at La Guardia from 2001 until early this year.
In Mr. Smiley's case, there was a mix-up in terminology: An F.A.A. air traffic manager reported to the Air Force that he had a signal from an emergency beacon; the Air Force uses the term emergency transponder.
Frank Hatfield, the agency's regional air traffic manager, said the Aug. 24 incident, originally classified as pilot error, happened because of an air traffic controller's slip of the tongue.
The bride's father retired as an air traffic manager at New York Tracon, a Federal Aviation Administration office in Westbury, N.Y., that handles flight departures and arrivals in the New York metropolitan area.
The region's challenges are unique and daunting for air traffic managers.
The Icelandic eruption caught air traffic managers unprepared, he said, although "the right calls were made" to ensure safety.
As the sound of planes was replaced by birds, and people across the continent frantically rearranged their travel plans, air traffic managers struggled to respond to a crisis they had never anticipated.
As air traffic managers tried to figure out why the tower was not responding, a regional controller left the pilots of the incoming flights with the erroneous impression that they could land using rules for airports with unmanned towers, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report Tuesday.
Airport operators, governmental environmental committees, airlines, air traffic managers and aircraft manufacturers should be actively engaged to initiate trials to assess the potential benefits of the combined possible solutions.
