The FAA basically decided the students were too white and the schools too elite, so in 2013 knocked them off the preferred ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said during an interview that he plans to encourage air traffic controllers to keep working past the mandatory retirement age of 56, which he says would enhance ...

The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain ...

Concerns about a shortage of air traffic controllers extend to Boston’s Logan International Airport. Federal data reviewed by ...

Air controller Tyler Casper controls the taxi ways from the 150-foot control tower in 2008. Last week’s mid-air collision highlighted the air traffic controller shortage but FAA documents show ...

THEY’VE NEVER REALLY HAD ENOUGH CONTROLLERS. IT WAS DURING THAT STRIKE FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN FIRED 11,000 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, AND THEY STILL DON’T HAVE ENOUGH WORKERS.

I was a Federal Aviation Administration employee for 38 years, working as an air traffic controller at facilities in ...