The FAA basically decided the students were too white and the schools too elite, so in 2013 knocked them off the preferred hiring list,” claimed lawyer Michael Pearson.

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

As air traffic controllers and aviation safety continue to make news, does John Glenn Columbus have enough controllers?

If San Carlos Airport loses its air traffic controllers, and air traffic towers are forced to go unmanned, it could create ...

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 ...

The helicopter pilot was flying under visual flight rules (meaning the pilot was using their eyes, not their instruments to avoid other aircraft) and had reported to air traffic control that they ...

Air traffic controller staffing concerns have intensified in the aftermath of the deadliest American aviation disaster in more than two decades. Sixty-seven people are believed to have died when a ...

The FAA’s 2024-2033 Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan shows that as of September 2023, Sacramento International had 14 fully trained air traffic controllers and one more person at a high level of ...

The responsibility of handling air traffic control for helicopters and incoming planes at Reagan National Airport were combined on Wednesday night ahead of a deadly collision, a report said. Sometime ...

Even if the controllers can’t leave with extra months of pay by giving notice, there is a serious attrition problem among air traffic controllers feeding the shortage. FAA rules require all ...