The FAA is changing the required rest period for air traffic controllers before a midnight shift from 12 hours to 10 hours.

It will take $31.5 billion to build a brand-new air traffic control system for the country, Department of Transportation ...

FAA, Union Agree on New Rest Rules for Air-Traffic Controllers By David Shepardson (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it had struck a deal with an employee union ...

The Control Tower Continuity Act would help address the ongoing staff shortfall of 3,000 positions by exempting personnel ...

The initiative responds to staffing shortfalls that have caused ground delays and diminished flight capacity at major airports. More than 90 percent of the country’s 313 air-traffic-control centers ...

The ‘Control Tower Continuity Act,’ as proposed, would allow the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to exempt certain air traffic controllers from the mandatory retirement requirement at age 56, ...

The quickest lever to pull to alleviate the strain on US air traffic is to hire more controllers. Even before the wake-up call from the 90-second radar blackout at Newark Liberty International ...

Currently, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is short roughly 3,000 air traffic controllers across the nation, according to the senator, who cited a media report, and the Secretary of ...

The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower mishaps and a string of crashes earlier this year.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said on Wednesday it had struck a deal with an employee union to ensure that air-traffic controllers receive additional rest as the agency deals with a ...