Cluttering up the guard frequency with unneeded chatter makes it harder for air traffic controllers to assist pilots in ...

Air traffic controllers lost communication for about 10 minutes with a small Mexican Navy plane carrying a young medical ...

But the plane’s use of the autonomous feature — which is designed to be activated in emergency situations, like when a pilot ...

President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have sparred over the condition of the air traffic control system, which is complex and carries a history of planned ...

The main entrance to FAA's Fort Worth Air Route Traffic Control Center in Fort Worth is pictured, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020. Tom Fox / Staff Photographer Scott Turner used to jump out of airplanes. A ...

The government picked a company with little experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control ...

Dec. 5 (UPI) --The Department of Transportation announced it selected an integrator to manage upgrades to the U.S. air traffic control system, which in recent years has seen failures and outages that ...

Airlines are gradually getting flight schedules back to normal. Congress can shut down government operations, but when airlines cancelled flights, Americans took notice. It’s clear that the Air ...

For the first time in decades, the administration, the Congress and the aviation industry are united on a detailed and aggressive plan to build a new air traffic control system. In fact, Congress has ...

Last Friday, the FAA ordered airlines to reduce their schedules nationwide — a 10 percent cut at forty major airports, including Chicago O’Hare, Atlanta, and San Francisco. More than 1,000 flights ...

The longest government shutdown in US history shook travel plans across America earlier this month as a shortage of air traffic controllers resulted in thousands of delayed or canceled flights. But ...

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 ...