The FAA is lifting all commercial flight restrictions at 40 major U.S. airports. The restrictions were put in place due to air traffic control safety concerns during the government shutdown. The ...

Shutdown affects paychecks for 13,000 air traffic controllers Controllers face financial strain, may seek side jobs, employee union warns Risk for air travel could rise as shutdown stalemate drags on, ...

In 2017, during his first term in office, President Trump announced his intention to privatize the U.S. air traffic control system, calling it "stuck, painfully, in the past." The proposal never took ...

The longest government shutdown in U.S. history delayed thousands of flights just weeks before the heavily traveled holiday season, reigniting debate over whether to privatize the U.S. air traffic ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we could adopt its privatized air traffic control system. Last month, to rally support for a massive ...

WASHINGTON — This week, the head of the Federal Aviation Administration laid out an ambitious goal of bringing the U.S. air traffic control system into the 21st century. "The whole idea is to replace ...

The current Trump administration is again focused on reforming air traffic control, following a recent spate of technical outages and staffing shortages as well as the January midair collision between ...