NATS and Heathrow Airport are delighted to announce the winner of the plane spotter photo competition, as voted for by you, is…

Two NATS air traffic controllers who were working on 11 September 2001 share their memories of that day 12 years on.

Earlier in the week Heathrow hosted a group of spotters for a day going behind the scenes at the airport, including a look around the fantastic new Terminal 2. As part of the day, NATS and Heathrow asked the spotters to submit their best photos for a competition where you get to decide the winners.

I had the pleasure of paying a behind the scenes visit to Heathrow’s new Terminal 2 on Tuesday. I was there as part of a day organised by the airport to show some invited journalists, bloggers and spotters Heathrow’s inner workings, including NATS’ role in the control tower.

An airport is an airport, right? Wrong! Every airport has its own idiosyncrasies, foibles and operational challenges. As such, we’ve compiled a top list of what we hope are interesting titbits and trivia on the airports that NATS operates from in the UK and Gibraltar.

The air traffic control tower is an iconic symbol of any airport, but the inner workings are veiled in secrecy because it’s a side of airport life that so few people ever see. That’s why we’ve created this infographic to explain what’s going on behind the scenes.

Did you know that every time you fly you’re taking part in a relay race on a huge scale where the runners are air traffic controllers and you and your plane is the baton?

Manchester Airport’s new £20m control tower is due to take over live operations at the UK’s third biggest airport during the night tonight.

Juliet Kennedy, Operations Director at our Swanwick Centre spoke to BBC Radio Solent earlier this week about Air Traffic Control.

If you saw Airport Live last night, you’d have seen Ady Dolan controlling aircraft at London Heathrow. So how did Ady get into Air Traffic Control? We caught up with him to find out.