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.

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.

Flights across the country were halted before air traffic control said teams are gradually resuming operations.

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.

Out of 138 U.S. air traffic control systems, a 2023 operational risk assessment from the FAA deemed 51, or 37%, to be unsustainable. Another 54, or 39%, were potentially unsustainable.

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.

Graves advocated for $12.5 billion in air traffic control modernization as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The money would fund new towers, radar systems and facilities, as well as hiring ...

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 ...

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

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 ...