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In this study, we analyze the criticality of nodes in air transportation using techniques from three different domains, and thus, three essentially different perspectives of criticality. First, we examine the unweighted structure of air transportation networks, using recent methods from control theory (maximum matching and minimum dominating set). Second, complex network metrics (betweenness and closeness) are used with passenger traffic as weights. Third, ticket data-level analysis (origin-destination betweenness and outbound traffic with transit threshold) is performed. Remarkably, all techniques identify a different set of critical nodes; while, in general, giving preference to the selection of high-degree nodes. Our evaluation on the international air transportation country network suggests that some countries, e.g., United States, France, and Germany, are critical from all three perspectives. Other countries, e.g …