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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy speaks alongside dated air traffic control equipment at an event unveiling a new U.S. control system at the Department of Transportation on May 08, 2025 ...

The summer travel season is underway, with millions of Americans on the move this weekend. But there are big questions about whether the nation's air traffic control system is ready for the surge.

It was allocated for things like airport improvement. And so the air traffic control system is in dire need of a fix. And to see the industry come together, as it did today, ...

The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower troubles on the East Coast and a string of crashes this year.

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.

A 2023 FAA Inspector General report showed 20 of 26 critical air traffic control facilities are staffed below the agency’s 85% threshold, with New York’s Terminal Radar Approach Control at 54%.