A critical shortage of 3,800 air traffic controllers is because of the Federal Aviation Administration’s DEI practices ...

including those better prepared because they had taken college courses in air-traffic control. “The FAA affirmative-action scandal is indeed a scandal,” says Marc Scribner of the Reason Foundation.

There are new questions concerning air safety, following the mid-air collision between an American Airlines flight and a ...

Each year, the FAA releases an Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, outlining hiring strategies to address staffing shortages at towers like the one at Piedmont Triad International Airport (PTI).

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is still some 3,000 spots short of filling vacant air traffic controller roles at airports. Less than 1-in-10 airports around the country have the ...

All 67 people on both aircraft were killed. A preliminary FAA internal report said staffing at Reagan’s air traffic control tower was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has indefinitely closed helicopter routes near Reagan National Airport following ...

And our local airports are no exception. The FAA sent Local 12 its air traffic controller 10-year workforce plan. It lists the number of positions filled at local airports and what it would ...

A former air traffic control officer in New Hampshire said Friday that proper staffing is important for passenger safety, but staffing concerns are nothing new for FAA workers. Retired air traffic ...

The FAA announced in September 2024 that it had more than 14,000 air traffic controllers. The organization said at the time it was working to "reverse a decades-long air traffic controller ...

They shouldn't, says an associate professor and program coordinator of the air-traffic ... years in the Federal Aviation Administration and had previously managed air-traffic control in both ...

It wasn’t a fluke: The FAA has had air traffic control staffing issues since pandemic ... You have to go through extensive background security medical checks. Then there’s on-the-job training ...