City in the Sky

Season 1

At any one time, there are around one million people airborne somewhere in the world; that equates to an entire airborne city - a 'city in the sky.' Straddling whole continents, the fabric of this extraordinary construction consists of the 100,000 flights that criss-cross the world every single day.

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S1 E1 - Departure
February 7, 2017
52min
TV-PG
What does it take to get a million people off the ground and up in the air? From building the world's biggest passenger plane to controlling the flow of passengers through the busiest airport on the planet, to the perils of getting airborne in the coldest city on earth...
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S1 E2 - Airborne
February 14, 2017
52min
TV-PG
We take flight for granted, but on any journey a hidden army of people keep your plane safe. We explore just what it takes to keep the 'city in the sky' airborne and safe between take-off and landing. How has flying become safer than ever before?
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S1 E3 - Arrival
February 21, 2017
53min
TV-PG
There are around a million people airborne at any one time. But what goes up must come down - and getting passengers safely back to earth depends on complex global networks and some astonishing technology.
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