Dave J wrote:

The original Airport (I think) does a relatively good job of showing
what it might be like to run a busy airport and mange the needs of the
airlines, passengers, surrounding city, etc.

Of course, that movie was based on Arthur Hailey's excellent book of
the same name. The culled out a lot of the details (they totally
removed the ATC plot line, for example) but it still was a pretty
good treatment. Loved the GCA approach.

The sequels were all junk.