Blacked-out air traffic control screens and communication issues in places like Newark, Denver and Jacksonville over the past several months have put a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic ...
Air traffic control staffing shortages and outdated technology are causing flight delays and cancellations. Transportation Secretary Duffy acknowledges the long-term neglect and underinvestment in the ...
The United States aviation industry continues to grapple with the worst air traffic controller shortage in nearly 30 years as a recent spate of incidents has thrust the high-stress profession into the ...
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 has a nationwide shortage of around 3,000 air traffic controllers, impacting airport efficiency. This understaffing exacerbates delays when issues like bad weather or technical outages occur.
WASHINGTON, May 21 (Reuters) - Major airline CEOs on Wednesday called on Congress to approve billions of dollars in funding to modernize the United States' aging air traffic control system, saying it ...
Sacramento City College has been selected to join a federal program that allows students to complete all required training for air traffic control jobs on campus, bypassing the Federal Aviation ...
In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it "stuck, painfully, in the past." The proposal never took ...
WASHINGTON — This week, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration laid out an ambitious goal of bringing the U.S. air traffic control system into the 21st century. "The whole idea is to replace ...
Air traffic controllers handling flights for Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another troubling communications outage on Monday. It is the region's fourth reported air traffic control ...
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, ...
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 ...