DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Hailee Williamson calmly directs a virtual airplane to land on a runway that looks exactly like one at the airport in Oklahoma City where the Federal Aviation Administration ...

Air traffic controllers ensure the safety of nearly a billion people per year. They are the unseen voices keeping America’s airspace from turning into a sky-high traffic jam. But what exactly do air ...

Federal aviation authorities have been trying for years to hire more air traffic controllers, but they've fallen short of their goals. We look at why it's so hard to train enough controllers. The U.S.

There has been a slate of major aviation disasters this year, including the mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., and a Scottsdale crash involving Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil's airplane. In spite ...

The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain but ...

They are the unseen voices keeping America’s air space from turning into a sky-high traffic jam, but what exactly do air traffic controllers do, and how do they get the job? With the FAA reducing ...

A shortage of national air traffic controllers coupled with safety concerns resulting in flight delays and cancellations is causing the federal government to step in to boost the workforce. Efforts to ...