In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it "stuck, painfully, in the past." The proposal never took ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is again reporting short staffing at air traffic control operations as the government shutdown continues in its eighth day. On Wednesday evening, six major air ...

Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about—but when you board an airplane, you really want it to work. Unfortunately, the American air traffic control system is ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we could adopt its privatized air traffic control system. Last month, to rally support for a massive ...

The flight reductions imposed during the government shutdown are now over; the Federal Aviation Administration lifted them early Monday morning. Forty major U.S. airports and more than 5 million ...

The main entrance to FAA's Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fort Worth is pictured, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer Scott Turner used to jump out of airplanes. A ...

The government picked a company with little experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control ...

Air traffic control staffing shortages and outdated technology are causing flight delays and cancellations. Transportation Secretary Duffy acknowledges the long-term neglect and underinvestment in the ...

A nationwide shortage of air-traffic controllers is straining operations at Nashville International Airport. The airport's control tower is understaffed and uses aging technology, increasing safety ...

The Newark airport's air traffic control dilemma lit up when radar screens went dark in early May. Air traffic controllers lost radio contact with pilots. Some were reportedly so unnerved they later ...

President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have sparred over the condition of the air traffic control system, which is complex and carries a history of planned ...