Chris Dickinson was stunned after he took an impromptu tour of an air-traffic control tower in Sydney, Australia. Controllers there worked 36-hour weeks on average and seemed happy, rather than ...

CAE has awarded a fresh contract with Adacel Technologies to support the RAAF Future Air Mission Training System program (F-AMTS). The F-AMTS program, backed by Phase 3 of Project AIR5428, seeks to ...

The current Trump administration is again focused on reforming air traffic control, following a recent spate of technical outages and staffing shortages as well as the January midair collision between ...

Construction of Sydney's second airport is well underway with the runway nearly done, but it will be missing one key feature. When the new airport — formally named Western Sydney International ...

The flight reductions imposed during the government shutdown are now over; the Federal Aviation Administration lifted them early Monday morning. Forty major U.S. airports and more than 5 million ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we could adopt its privatized air traffic control system. Last month, to rally support for a massive ...

Last Friday, the FAA ordered airlines to reduce their schedules nationwide — a 10 percent cut at forty major airports, including Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta, and San Francisco. More than 1,000 flights ...

On July 21, 2025, The New York Post published an article claiming that while Pete Buttigieg was secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), the agency spent $80 billion on diversity, ...

Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about—but when you board an airplane, you really want it to work. Unfortunately, the American air traffic control system is ...

The main entrance to FAA's Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fort Worth is pictured, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer Scott Turner used to jump out of airplanes. A ...