Bodø Air Traffic Control Center or Bodø ATCC en route air traffic control

Air traffic control

Air traffic control is a service provided by ground-based controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and in the air. The primary purpose of ATC systems worldwide is to separate aircraft to prevent collisions, to organize and expedite the flow of traffic, and to provide information and other...

 unit located at Bodø Airport

Bodø Airport

Bodø Airport is civil airport in Bodø, Norway. Located just south of the city centre, on the westernmost tip of the peninsula Bodø lies on, it shares facilities with the military air force base Bodø Main Air Station. The airport has a single concrete, runway which runs in a roughly east-west...

 in Bodø

Bodø

is a city and a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the Salten region.The city of Bodø was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 . Bodin was merged with Bodø on 1 January 1968. Skjerstad was merged with Bodø on 1 January 2005...

, in North Norway.

The ATCC has a total of 36 airports under its area of responsibility (AoR) - 13 controlled and 23 uncontrolled, regional airports - including Svalbard Airport, Longyear. It is divided into a total of 6 sectors; 5 en route sectors (including 1 oceanic) and 1 approach sector. The ATCC employs about 50 air traffic controllers and about 30 assistants.