The Federal Aviation Administration's training academy is trying to get thousands more controllers into chronically ...

Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say the Trump administration's focus on new equipment doesn't address ...

FAA Air Traffic Organization deputy COO Franklin McIntosh told a congressional hearing Wednesday the agency expected to hire another 2,000 controllers by the end of 2025, meaning understaffing ...

Called the Air Traffic Organization, it will reside within the Federal Aviation Administration and is designed to function like a private business. The organization will use clear and measurable ...

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The head of the Federal Aviation Administration's air traffic organization is stepping down after 40 years of federal government service, an agency spokesperson said on Tuesday.

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.

The FAA is still short roughly 3,000 air traffic controllers and in the process of updating copper telecommunications wires for a brand-new fiber-optic network. Air Traffic Organization deputy COO ...

The numbers recorded on the 2024 Air Traffic Control Workforce Plan are from September 23, 2023.

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