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The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its ...
An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump ...
The first model requires 12,242 certified professional controllers and controllers in training, while the second model requires 14,633 certified professional controllers only.
The audio of the conversation between the pilot of Air India Dreamliner, that returned to Hong Kong after flying for about 90 minutes, and the Air Traffic Control (ATC) has surfaced on the internet.
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.
Still, there are private air traffic controllers working in the U.S. today. Through its Contract Tower Program, the FAA allows airports with limited air traffic to staff their towers with controllers ...
Currently, Poole says, travelers and airlines pay taxes that go to the U.S. Treasury, and that money then has to be appropriated by Congress to the FAA. In a public utility model, "the revenues would ...
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.
Facing a severe shortage, the FAA is racing to hire thousands of air traffic controllers. But training them can take years. We visit a school in Florida that's trying to get them on the job faster.