More than two weeks after a helicopter and airplane collision over Washington killed 67 people, investigators have completed ...

American Airlines CEO Robert Isom met with President Trump and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy to discuss improvements to ...

Two senators are calling on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to work with Congress to increase its funding and ...

Pilots who agree initiate a swooping turn that on final approach brings them northwest and low across the river — the path ...

A critical air traffic control facility at Orlando International Airport is struggling to keep up with the region’s growth, ...

The basic problem, which reformers have been trying to remedy since the Clinton administration, is that the system is ...

Chronic understaffing of air traffic control towers may have contributed to last week’s deadly crash between a military helicopter and a passenger flight in Washington, D.C. — which underscored a ...

Data from the Federal Aviation Administration is showing the scale of staffing issues that air traffic control centers in the U.S. are facing.

To complicate matters, none of the country's 21 Air Route Traffic Control Centers, which oversee high-altitude flights, have enough trained controllers to meet staffing goals. Nationwide ...

A 2019 announcement detailed a programme to enroll up to 20 people with targeted disabilities in up to a year of training at air traffic control centers, with the potential to be appointed to a ...

Issues with air traffic control staffing are under the spotlight ... with nearly 40 percent of positions unfilled. These centers manage air traffic for some of the nation's busiest airports ...

Additionally, none of the nation's Air Route Traffic Control Centers that handled high-altitude "en route" traffic had enough fully-trained controllers to meet the targets either. The data ...