air traffic controllers

Nov 17, 2025
After shutdown, what's next for air traffic control?
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Some are calling for the FAA's budget for air traffic control to be detached from Washington budget fights.
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Oct 9, 2025
TSA agents helped end a government shutdown before. Could they do it again?
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Staffing shortages are already reportedly causing delays at airports.
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Sep 3, 2024
FAA: Air traffic controllers wanted
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In May, the FAA said it was short 3,000 controllers. One factor in that: all air traffic controllers have to train at a single FAA academy in Oklahoma City.
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Apr 28, 2023
A shortage of air traffic controllers is forcing airlines to cancel flights to and from NYC
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The FAA has asked airlines to give up precious landing slots.
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Mar 26, 2020
What happens if air-traffic controllers come down with COVID-19?
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Cases of the disease have been reported in a handful of air traffic control sites around the U.S.
Jun 5, 2017
Trump tries to shift attention to FAA breakup and privatization
With the looming congressional testimony of former FBI Director James Comey later this week, the White House is hoping to give Americans something else to focus on —infrastructure. Speaking from the Rose Garden earlier today, President Trump announced a proposal to separate the nation’s air traffic controllers from the FAA, placing them under the control […]
Sep 1, 2016
American Airlines’ new ad campaign tells fliers to make the best of it
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Uh, thanks?
May 15, 2015
Change is in the air traffic control tower
The air traffic control system is still using radar, not GPS.
Apr 24, 2013
JFK air traffic controller on first furlough day: ‘Frustrating’
Air traffic controllers from JFK to LAX have begun their furloughs, making for long and painful delays, especially flying into and out of the big East Coast airports around New York City.
Apr 22, 2013
Travelers may run into delays due to FAA furloughs
Some groups have filed suit to stop the furloughs of air traffic controllers. The FAA must cut hundreds of millions under federal budget sequestration.