As of May 7, all but two of the 313 air traffic control facilities in the United States were understaffed, a New York Times analysis found. Skip to content Skip to site index U.S.

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.

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.

As the air traffic control crisis drags on, putting lives in danger and snarling logistics at key travel hubs, a new villain has emerged: the controllers union. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ...

Air traffic control systems are shockingly outdated – copper wires from the 1970s, data stored on floppy disks and paper notes. As the archaic technology causes lags at airports around the country, ...

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.Transportation Secretary Sean ...