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.

Two U.S. senators called on Wednesday for increased funding and staffing for Federal Aviation Administration air traffic ...

Following last week‘s air crash in Washington, the FAA is receiving extra scrutiny. The real problem with the FAA, however, ...

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

Based on 2024 targets set by the FAA and the air traffic controllers union. Does not include ARTCCs; Map: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals San Diego International Airport is fending with a 17.9% vacancy rate ...

Air traffic controller staffing has faced renewed attention after a January plane crash in Washington, D.C. Chicago has not ...

Airports in the U.S. are struggling with staffing shortages in air traffic control, with only around 70%-79% of positions ...

The problems were obvious 20 years ago, when I visited control towers in both Canada and the United ... including those better prepared because they had taken college courses in air-traffic control.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the COVID-19 pandemic caused air traffic controller recruitment to "plummet" for two ...

Only about 2% of the towers met the Collaborative Resource ... The data, from the end of fiscal year 2023, was published in the FAA's Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan, an annual report ...

The most recent FAA data show that CVG’s control tower exceeded the agency’s staffing target, but union officials say it's not enough.

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 ...