The FAA is confronting a shortage of about 3,000 air traffic controllers, with roughly 35% of trainees failing to complete ...

The Federal Aviation Administration's training academy is trying to get thousands more controllers into chronically understaffed towers. Scripps News got to take a look inside the FAA's largest class.

An exclusive video obtained by CBS News shows inside the problem-plagued air traffic control facility that handles flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport during a brief outage ...

An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.

The National Transportation Safety Board will question witnesses Thursday about air traffic control training, a key part of the investigation into January’s deadly midair collision at Ronald ...

Air traffic control centers across the country are understaffed, according to data from the Federal Aviation.

Enabling control of the airspace from austere airfields, the mobile air operations tower (MAOT) is an excellent example of ...

Air traffic control towers are under-staffed and under-funded. Here's why that's been so difficult for Washington to solve.

The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

The entire air traffic control system remains federally managed—even as commercial aviation has become far more complex.

Air traffic control is back in the news. On Apr. 28 and again on May 9, communication system breakdowns affecting Newark Liberty International Airport limited the ability of air traffic ...