Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The shortage of air traffic controller specialists is one of the reasons for the hectic stretch at Newark Liberty International Airport amid hundreds of cancellations and delays leaving ...

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 traffic control facilities will be short-staffed, according ...

The Trump administration says it will replace the country’s aging air traffic control system with an all-new technology, following a fatal mid-air collision and a series of near misses in recent months—but first it needs Congress to approve tens of ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Thursday will call for tens of billions of dollars to overhaul America’s strained air traffic control system to address crumbling infrastructure, dramatic staffing shortfalls and failing ...

This is having *** great impact, great concern, great stress. The FAA says it's been delaying flights due to air traffic controller shortages. The transportation secretary blames the government shutdown. He says many controllers are calling out sick since ...

President Donald Trump touted his administration's efforts to rebuild and modernize U.S. air traffic control, as the Department of Transportation rolled out its three-year plan to build a brand-new, "state-of-the-art" system to address critical safety ...

The current Trump administration is again focused on reforming air traffic control, following a recent spate of technical outages and staffing shortages as well as the January midair collision between an American Airlines regional jet and U.S. Army Black ...

FAA investigates event of one jet flying too close to another, though both crews responded to alerts and landed safely