“With all thy getting, get understanding." America’s Air Traffic Control system (ATC) is running on borrowed time. The recent failure of the Notice to Air Missions (NOTAM) system, which left all ...

Traffic lights today are controlled by computers and other purpose-built systems, but what did people do before computers ...

The FAA's training academy in Oklahoma City is operating in spite of the government shutdown, but air traffic control trainees are still feeling its impact. We've heard a lot about how the government ...

Blacked-out air traffic control screens and communication issues in places like Newark, Denver and Jacksonville over the past several months have put a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic ...

In 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson was president. The war was in full swing and the United States had almost half a million soldiers in Vietnam. The biggest concern for most young men was their military ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Bob Poole, with the Reason Foundation, who argues that privatizing air traffic control in the U.S. would bring more stable funding and fewer travel disruptions.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called for a massive investment of billions of dollars in the country’s air traffic control system following a series of issues that have plagued it, most recently ...

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 controllers to ...

Tens of thousands of planes take off, land and perform touch-and-goes at the Marana Regional Airport in southern Arizona every year. Without an air traffic control tower, it’s a calculated dance that ...

Just like Easter, the official start of the summer air traffic control strike season is a moveable feast. Normally it is French workers who walk out en masse to scupper the travel plans of tens of ...