According to the NATCA, air traffic controllers make sure that flights are always smooth, navigating two million aviation ...

The federal government runs air traffic control because that was the easiest way to do things in the early days of flying.

Experts say that underinvestment really is the root cause of most of the headaches in the current U.S. air traffic control system. "The FAA, for all of its faults, it can only respond with the ...

Overhaul of nation's air traffic control system has started with training of controllers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy ...

CBS News got an up-close look at a pilot's training inside a 737 Max simulator amid a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic control system.

CBS News got an up-close look at a pilot's training inside a 737 Max simulator amid a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic control system.

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 fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

Air traffic control is back in the news. On Apr. 28 and again on May 9, communication system breakdowns affecting Newark Liberty International Airport limited the ability of air traffic ...

Updated at 1:36 p.m. ET on May 20, 2025 The ongoing crisis at Newark Liberty International Airport has laid bare the sorry state of our nation’s air-traffic-control system. Equipment outages ...

These air traffic control communication issues have led to hundreds of flight delays lasting more than a week and prompted some controllers to take trauma leave, CNN previously reported. Meanwhile ...