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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Air Route Traffic Control Center in Hilliard is experiencing a telecommunications issue that began Friday afternoon, causing a loss of radar, frequencies ...
Air traffic collegiate training initiatives Before applying to become an air traffic control specialist, a step in the process that is not required but crucial and recommended is participating in ...
Newark’s Air Traffic Control Staffing Crisis Is Dire. It’s Also Not Unique. By Aaron Krolik, Elena Shao and Emily Steel May 16, 2025 Share full article 279 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
How did we get here? The FAA's air traffic control failures didn't develop overnight, although the headaches at Newark did catch many travelers by surprise. Industry watchers have long warned that ...
At most U.S. air traffic control towers, when a new plane is about to enter its airspace, they’re handled exactly the same as in the 1970s in one key way: a printer spits out a strip of paper ...
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.
NASHUA – Although the spring semester has ended, work has not stopped for professors in the Aviation Department at Nashua Community College as they prepare to launch the Air Traffic Control ...