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.

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.

That starts with the One, Big, Beautiful Bill to launch construction of a brand-new air traffic control system. I recently returned from representing the United States at the Paris Air Show.

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.

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 ...

OSHKOSH — U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a major overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system has started with increased enrollment in the FAA's air traffic controller classes.

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.

President Trump's tax and spending bill includes more than $12 billion to get started on a major overhaul of the nation's air traffic control system. Duffy, however, told Congress the project will ...

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 ...