What does it take to get a million people and their luggage off the ground and up in the air? From building the world's biggest passenger plane to navigating through the busiest airport on the planet to the perils of getting airborne in the coldest city on earth, find out the remarkable story of departure. You will never look at flying in the same way again.
This episode explores just what it takes to keep this city in the sky safe between take-off and landing. Discover how pilots find their way across thousands of miles of the sky in the dead of night. Meet the air traffic controllers who are responsible for the busiest airspace in the world - over Atlanta in south east America - and find out just what is involved in co-ordinating the 100,000 flights that cross the globe every day, while avoiding collisions.
Explore just what it takes to bring the citizens of the sky back to the ground. Meet one of just 26 pilots in the world qualified to land at Paro, Bhutan. Find out more about the air traffic controllers who, at some times of the year, deal with over 1,000 flights a day arriving at Atlanta - the busiest airport in the world.