Chris Dickinson was stunned after he took an impromptu tour of an air-traffic control tower in Sydney, Australia. Controllers there worked 36-hour weeks on average and seemed happy, rather than ...

When air traffic outpaces infrastructure, smart fixes matter. See how a US airport’s container-built control tower offers a ...

Sydney Airport came close to completely shutting down take-offs on the afternoon of Friday September 12, when staff illness, on top of longstanding shortages left only a skeleton crew of air traffic ...

Concerns among pilots about possible mid-air collisions are spilling over in Australia as a shortage of air traffic controllers leaves airport towers unmanned, forcing passenger jets to fend for ...

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The current Trump administration is again focused on reforming air traffic control, following a recent spate of technical outages and staffing shortages as well as the January midair collision between ...

The Trump administration says it will replace the country’s aging air traffic control system with an all-new technology, following a fatal mid-air collision and a series of near misses in recent ...

Last Friday, the FAA ordered airlines to reduce their schedules nationwide — a 10 percent cut at forty major airports, including Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta, and San Francisco. More than 1,000 flights ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we could adopt its privatized air traffic control system. Last month, to rally support for a massive ...