The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its ...

Air traffic control towers are under-staffed and under-funded. Here's why that's been so difficult for Washington to solve. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on ...

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.

Simply stated, air-traffic control is a 24/7 high-tech operation trapped inside a regulatory agency. The FAA is bound by stultifying federal rules and sees Congress, not the traveling public, as ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he wants a full modernization of the nation's antiquated air traffic control system within four years. On Thursday, he announced a far-reaching, estimated ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called for a massive investment of billions of dollars in the country’s air traffic control system following a series of issues that have plagued it, most ...

The Trump administration has announced a plan to replace the country’s aging air traffic control system with an all-new technology—but needs Congress to allot tens of billions of dollars.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy unveiled a multi-billion dollar plan to overhaul the nation's failing air traffic control system by 2028, following a deadly plane crash and thousands of hair ...

A 2023 FAA Inspector General report showed 20 of 26 critical air traffic control facilities are staffed below the agency’s 85% threshold, with New York’s Terminal Radar Approach Control at 54%.

Colorado Air Traffic Control Facility Lost Contact With Some Pilots. Controllers switched frequencies and planes were “safely separated,” officials said.