The fragile state of the U.S. air traffic control system was easy to see during the recent outages in Newark. But it will be a lot harder to make up for decades of underinvestment and other mistakes.

The United States’ air traffic control system faces a severe staffing crisis that threatens to worsen flight delays and disrupt travel plans across the country.

The Trump administration has announced a plan to replace the country’s aging air traffic control system with an all-new technology—but needs Congress to allot tens of billions of dollars.

Air traffic control sectors also coincided, more or less, with the distance that radar could see accurately. The mathematics of radar translated naturally into a polar stereo-graphic coordinate ...

The air traffic control tower is the most important part of any airport, yet it’s also the most unacknowledged. Fliers seldom stop to admire their ethereal beauty and futuristic silhouettes. We ...

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 ...

The Trump administration hopes to upgrade and replace the nation's entire air traffic control system, with President Trump saying Thursday morning that he'll work with Congress on a bill to that end.

A view of an air traffic control tower Wednesday at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, where there's been thousands of flight delays and cancellations over the last two weeks.

Ninety-nine percent of the air traffic control facilities in the United States are operating below recommended staffing levels, a New York Times analysis has found. The ongoing crisis at Newark ...

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Rep. Sam Graves (R-Mo.) released a budget reconciliation proposal Tuesday that would allocate $15 billion for the modernization of air tra… ...

An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., in 2023. (Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images ...

The first part of President Trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan took flight Monday when the president called for the privatization of the country's air traffic control system. "We're still ...