Air traffic control towers are under-staffed and under-funded. Here's why that's been so difficult for Washington to solve. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on ...

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 U.S. Department of Transportation on Thursday announced a multibillion-dollar plan to build an entirely new air traffic control system and ramp up air traffic controller hiring. “The system ...

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 ...

New technologies could help air traffic control operate more smoothly, but it won't get rolled out overnight. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on America ...

Air traffic control towers are under-staffed and under-funded. Here's why that's been so difficult for Washington to solve. advertisement. Air traffic control keeps planes moving.

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

The Trump administration has announced a plan to replace the country’s aging air traffic control system with an all-new technology—but needs Congress to allot tens of billions of dollars.

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 ...

U.S. House Republicans are proposing $15 billion in new funding for air traffic control reform and a new $200 fee on electric cars as part of wide-range tax reform bill under consideration.

So when I got out of the Marine Corps, I attempted to apply. At that time, the FAA was not taking applications. But then, the following year, the air traffic control strike happened. So the day of the ...

Here's what travelers should know about the issues at the 12th busiest airport in the U.S. Air traffic control staffing shortage. One of the reasons Newark airport has been dealing with ...