President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have sparred over the condition of the air ...
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 ...
Almost everyone agrees that the US air traffic control system is broken. Longstanding staffing shortages. Antiquated technology. And now, air traffic controllers are caught in the middle of a ...
We still don’t know how many mistakes led to the collision of a helicopter with an American Airlines passenger jet making its descent at Reagan National Airport last week. But one thing has been clear ...
Elon Musk said Thursday that Verizon’s efforts to provide a critically needed upgrade to the FAA’s air traffic control system is failing. And he said that it is important that Starlink, a unit of his ...
In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it "stuck, painfully, in the past." The proposal never took ...
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says he wants a full modernization of the nation's antiquated air traffic control system within four years. On Thursday, he announced a far-reaching, estimated ...
The government shutdown and recent accidents have shown the Air Traffic Control system’s vulnerability. It should be turned into an independent, nonprofit organization removed from politics. The ...
The Federal Aviation Administration will embark on an ambitious three-year plan to modernize America's air traffic control systems and phase out the "outdated technologies that are unable to meet" ...
An ATC outage at Newark airport has drawn more attention to an outdated system. Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a ...