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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 ...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the revised Senate version of the budget reconciliation bill, including $12.5 ...
The Senate bill, which will now go back to the House for another vote, contains several provisions for air traffic control reform that could lead to political infighting in Congress.
The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday called on Congress to pass the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes $12 ...
America's air traffic control system is showing its age. Work is progressing on the modernization of the system; however, a ...
The FAA isn't alone in clinging to floppy disk technology. San Francisco's train control system still runs on DOS loaded from ...
While faulting some towers for inefficient practices, the report recognized significant external factors and called on ...
As global air travel rebounds with a vengeance, the aviation industry is once again grappling with a painful bottleneck: ...
Of the 290 FAA-operated air traffic control towers spread across America in 2023 (the most recent year with available data), 128 were considered understaffed, falling below the FAA’s 85% ...
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.
The nation’s air traffic control system, responsible for ensuring the safe passage of nearly 3 million travelers a day, has long been overtaxed, understaffed and saddled with technology that ...