I took this picture (with passenger aircrafts queing up for take off) when I was transiting at Tokyo-Narita International Airport (Narita Airport) enrouting to Washington D.C. The flight from Singapore took an hour and half circling above the coast of South-eastern Japan due to heavy air traffic before the flight received a green light for landing at Narita Airport. Believe it or not, it was on a one fine day.Narita Airport is the second busiest passenger airport and the busiest air-freight airport in Japan and it is the 8th busiest air-freight airport in the world! The airport serves Tokyo and it is about 50-60 km away from Tokyo City Centre.
Looking at the planes touching down or taking off at almost every 5 minutes or probably even shorter, one could only wonder the magnitude of effort and coordination that all around has to played to ensure smooth running of an airport, especially one of the busiest airport in the world!
Every flight involves engineers to pilots, air traffic controllers to airport officers, ground traffic controllers to weather station, air marshalls/security to air traffic pattern...and at least another several dozens of skills and professionals are involved.
Two-thumbs up for all who works in the aviation industries ensuring safe and smooth air-travelling for hundreds of millions of people every year and of course at any time, millions of people are up in the air (off ground). Amazing!
Joshua
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