Federal aviation authorities have been trying for years to hire more air traffic controllers, but they've fallen short of their goals. We look at why it's so hard to train enough controllers.

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 FAA is set to overhaul its ancient air traffic control systems that still uses a ... Modern air traffic control in the U.S. hasn't changed much since this scene from the 1990s Die Hard 2.

Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say the Trump administration's focus on new equipment doesn't address ...

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US air traffic control systems are to get an upgrade, finally ending the use of 30-year-old operating system Windows 95, and dispensing with floppy disks and paper strips in the process. On ...

It’s hard to miss the blaring headlines: The United States’s air traffic control system is severely understaffed. While high-profile issues like the ones at Newark Airport in New Jersey have ...

CNN goes inside the academy preparing air traffic controllers to manage the high-stress and high-stakes skies By Alexandra Skores, Pete Muntean, CNN Jul 10, 2025 ...

There’s unique aspects to air traffic control that it’s hard to capture in a simulation. ... ‘Air traffic control is 90% slow and boring and 9% exciting and 1% Oh my gosh,’” Wedel said.

There’s unique aspects to air traffic control that it’s hard to capture in a simulation. ... ‘Air traffic control is 90% slow and boring and 9% exciting and 1% Oh my gosh,’” Wedel said.