The problems with the nation’s air traffic control system have been spotlighted during the government shutdown, with controllers working without pay for almost a month and a half and hundreds calling ...

The Transportation Department is drawing bipartisan criticism for rewarding $10,000 bonuses to a small number of air traffic controllers and technicians while ignoring the vast majority of the ...

After the fatal collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines passenger jet over the Potomac River in January, confidence in air travel safety dropped among Americans.

A nationwide air traffic controller shortage has put new attention on a growing training option the FAA now approves for certain colleges. The recent federal government shutdown highlighted how thin ...

The main entrance to FAA's Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fort Worth is pictured, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer Scott Turner used to jump out of airplanes. A ...

The agency expects to spend more than $6 billion this year to lay the groundwork for a complete overhaul of the rapidly aging air traffic control system.

(CNN) — The longest government shutdown in US history shook travel plans across America earlier this month as a shortage of air traffic controllers resulted in thousands of delayed or canceled flights ...

Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, the ranking member on the Senate's aviation subcommittee, is demanding the Transportation Department expand its $10,000 bonus to all air traffic ...

The federal government shutdown continues with no clear end in sight — and air traffic controllers say they're reaching a breaking point. On the eve of Veterans Day, National Air Traffic Controllers ...

The Trump administration is asking “tough questions” of certain air traffic controllers who did not report to work during the recent government shutdown, the head of the Federal Aviation ...