It will take $31.5 billion to build a brand-new air traffic control system for the country, Department of Transportation ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on Wednesday will detail the Trump administration's plans to overhaul the aging U.S.

Facing a severe shortage, the FAA is racing to hire thousands of air traffic controllers. But training them can take years. We visit a school in Florida that's trying to get them on the job faster.

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new air traffic control system were announced Thursday by Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy amid a spotlight on the out-of-date ATC system and the air traffic controller shortage.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

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Because of an antiquated system and a lack of controllers, “we are not able to fly the schedule that we’d like or that our customers expect,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said.

Delta CEO Ed Bastian said air traffic control systems in the U.S. are so antiquated it actually takes longer to fly certain routes today than it did in the 1950s.Transportation Secretary Sean ...

New technologies could help air traffic control operate more smoothly, but it won't get rolled out overnight. Skipping the US Travel 2025 🌴 This country's safest A spotlight on America ...

Newark, Atlanta airports experience more terrifying air traffic control outages, bringing flights to a standstill By . Anthony Blair. Published May 11, 2025. Updated May 11, 2025, 12:42 p.m. ET.