The FAA says its new AI software will reduce stress for air traffic controllers, help reduce flight delays and cancellations, and lead to lower airfares—but aviation experts are skeptical about some ...

A severe shortage still remains.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four days into the government shutdown, Jack Criss, an air traffic control specialist at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, ...

The agency hired a record 2,235 air traffic controller trainees to exceed its Fiscal Year 2026 goal.

Lower pay and outdated standards are making it hard to fill military air traffic controller positions, causing shortages that could undermine the defense of American airspace, a government watchdog ...

The Transportation Department is drawing bipartisan criticism for rewarding $10,000 bonuses to a small number of air traffic controllers and technicians while ignoring the vast majority of the ...

"It’s getting more tense, more stressful,” one veteran flight controller—who has resorted to delivering food to pay his bills—tells PEOPLE Air traffic controllers have gone without a paycheck for over ...

President Donald Trump urged air traffic controllers who have missed work during the government shutdown to return to their posts, threatening to withhold pay for those who do not show up as travelers ...

As the government shutdown drags through its fourth week, air traffic controllers and other federal aviation workers are feeling the pinch after missing their first full paycheck. Now, major airlines ...

An air traffic controller failed to tell the pilots of an Amazon cargo plane about the potential for strong tail winds as ...

The ongoing U.S. government shutdown is severely straining an already critically understaffed air traffic control (ATC) system, forcing controllers to work without pay under immense stress and fatigue ...

An air traffic controller in Colorado flies to work by paramotor, taking off from the road outside his apartment with a ...