Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a spotlight on the out-of-date ATC system and the air traffic controller shortage.

The nation's aging air traffic control system will be replaced with one that is aimed at 21st-century needs while improving safety, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday.

The plan includes building new facilities to replace outdated control towers and Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON centers, which handle traffic at altitudes up to 10,000 feet.

In 2017, then-President Donald Trump called for privatizing the air traffic control system by 2020 - a plan that went nowhere. "We're proposing to take American air travel into the future finally ...

"The plan to do a brand-new redo of air traffic control has never existed," said Duffy, who went on to describe the current decades-old system, which he said uses outdated copper wires and radar ...

The Department of Transportation will build a “brand new air traffic control system” by 2028, Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday. “The FAA is going to undertake an initiative that has ...

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Plans for a new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a spotlight on the out-of-date ATC system and the air traffic controller shortage.

The nation's aging air traffic control system will be replaced with one that is aimed at 21st-century needs while improving safety, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday.