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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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.

For example, George W. Bush introduced plans for a next-generation air traffic control system that was supposed to be ready to go in 2025, but as Oliver points out, that certainly didn't happen.

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a radio failure at the Denver Air Traffic Control Center, which covers approximately 285,000 square miles of airspace covering parts of ...