On a fall afternoon, a Boeing passenger jet had just been cleared for takeoff at Reagan National Airport when the pilot saw a ...
President Trump prematurely blamed the air traffic controllers for the crash before rolling his statements back.
As of data released in fall of 2024, the FAA said they had more than 14,000 air traffic controllers. Most controllers average ...
Chico Regional Airport Manager Tom Bahr talks about the staffing shortage of air traffic controllers at the airport.
One California airport is now keeping its air traffic controllers after back-and-forth late-night negotiations led to a ...
During the campaign, Musk demanded the resignation of FAA administrator Michael Whitaker, who clashed with Musk over ...
While no cause has been determined in Wednesday’s crash, aviation safety experts have repeatedly raised concerns about air traffic controller shortages. McCormick said the pande ...
Some major US airports had less than 60% of their staffing targets filled with fully certified controllers in recent years, ...
National will always be essential but safety demands that air traffic be spread across the region.
After the fatal crash over the Potomac River, President Trump blamed diversity hiring. But that's not how disability hiring works.
Too few controllers have been on the job across the country in general, and in the Baltimore-Washington corridor in ...
A lawsuit alleges the FAA denied 1,000 air traffic control applicants due to diversity hiring policies, sparking debate amid a fatal midair collision in D.C.