The academy “is the introduction into air traffic,” said Chris Wilbanks, FAA vice president for mission support. “This really ...

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

While faulting some towers for inefficient practices, the report recognized significant external factors and called on Congress to help address the problem.

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.