Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a spotlight on the out-of-date ATC system and the air traffic controller shortage ...

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

A: The air traffic control systems are very complex and effective. Air traffic controllers use radar to separate traffic, issuing instructions to keep the required separation.

But one thing has been clear for decades: America’s air-traffic control system, once the world’s most advanced, has become an international disgrace. Long before the Obama and Biden administrations’ ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

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 ongoing crisis at Newark Liberty International Airport has laid bare the sorry state of our nation’s air-traffic-control system. Equipment outages have left air-traffic controllers unable to ...

The already short-staffed air traffic control facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark lost five controllers to trauma leave after the first radar and communications ...

Technological problems have made the situation worse. In Austin, a system that gauges the speed and direction of the wind was down for weeks, leaving controllers to rely on a windsock.

The FAA has begun overhauling the nation's air traffic control system by increasing enrollment in controller training programs and offering bonuses to delay retirements. Transportation Secretary ...