JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center in Hilliard is experiencing a telecommunications issue that began Friday afternoon, causing a loss of radar, frequencies ...

CBS News got an up-close look at a pilot's training inside a 737 Max simulator amid a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic control system.

An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.

How did we get here? The FAA's air traffic control failures didn't develop overnight, although the headaches at Newark did catch many travelers by surprise. Industry watchers have long warned that ...

An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.

At the end of April, air traffic control radar surveillance and radio communication systems at Newark Liberty International Airport went dark for over a minute. A week and half later, radar went down ...

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

The Air Traffic Control Workforce Development Act of 2025 aims to reduce air traffic controller shortages. The bill was introduced by U.S. Reps. Greg Stanton, D-Arizona, and Nick Begich, R-Alaska.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said air traffic control systems in the U.S. are so antiquated it actually takes longer to fly certain routes today than it did in the 1950s.

The Philadelphia tower, which houses both airport air traffic control and TRACON (short for Terminal Radar Approach Control) facilities, is short about 51 employees from the agency's goal based on ...

Newark’s Air Traffic Control Staffing Crisis Is Dire. It’s Also Not Unique. By Aaron Krolik, Elena Shao and Emily Steel May 16, 2025 Share full article 279 ...

The air traffic control tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was 69% staffed as of September 2023, according to Federal Aviation Administration figures.