A new control tower operator academy launching at Bartow Executive Airport aims to address a nationwide shortage.

Based on 2024 targets set by the FAA and the air traffic controllers' union. Does not include ARTCCs; Map: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals A huge share of the country's air traffic control facilities are ...

staffing at the air traffic control tower was "not normal" at the time of the crash. When aircraft volume goes down, a supervisor can make the decision to combine two controller positions into one ...

Chronic understaffing of air traffic control towers may have contributed to last week’s deadly crash between a military helicopter and a passenger flight in Washington, D.C. — which underscored a ...

The request was in response to a question by air traffic control (ATC) asking whether they ... of the helicopter involved in the crash. Maps published by the FAA show that helicopters are required ...

The Washington air traffic control tower overseeing the flights where 67 people ... The operation is expected to last at least several days. Follow our live blog for updates. An American Airlines ...

An American Airlines plane with 64 people on board collided with an Army helicopter over Washington, D.C., and crashed into ...

Through maps, videos, photos and radio transmissions, CNN is piecing together what occurred during the deadly, midair collision.

One of the air ... air traffic control staffing levels at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport were ‘not normal’ at the time, the newspaper reports. We are closing our live blog covering ...

“There’s a mayday situation,” barks air traffic ... “area control centres,” they monitor 18 million square kilometres of airspace through a complex array of maps, radar and weather ...

In the three years before the deadly collision between an Army helicopter and an American Airlines flight near Reagan ...