The ‘Control Tower Continuity Act,’ as proposed, would allow the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to exempt certain air traffic controllers from the mandatory retirement requirement at age 56, ...

Air traffic controllers – whose job it is to coordinate the movements of hundreds of thousands of aircraft in the skies each day – have been in short supply, a problem that was exacerbated by ...

Air traffic controllers at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport, direct 909,431 takeoffs and landings a year.

Air traffic controllers at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world's busiest airport, direct 909,431 takeoffs and landings a year.

Just another day for an air traffic controller in what is called the most stressful job in the world? No, actually it is a scene from the 1999 film Pushing Tin starring John Cusack, which is ...

Air traffic controllers, who spend hours a day glued to monitors or scanning the skies with the lives of thousands of passengers at stake, are a last line of defense against crashes.

The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower troubles on the East Coast and a string of crashes this year.

A near-collision between two planes at a major California airport two years ago was caused by an air traffic controller distracted by a third plane, the National Transportation Safety Board said ...

More than 90 percent of the country’s 313 air traffic control facilities operate below the Federal Aviation Administration’s recommended staffing levels, according to an analysis of staffing ...

An air traffic controller on duty during a 90-second communications blackout at Newark International Airport earlier this month says that if immediate changes aren’t made in one of the busiest ...

Air traffic controllers across the country have grappled with radar and communications outages for years, CNN review finds.

The CEOs of the five largest U.S. airlines on Thursday plan to back the Trump administration's proposal to spend tens of billions of dollars to reform the aging air traffic control system and ...