air traffic control

Several countries have privatized air traffic control. Should the U.S.?

5:00am June 27, 2025

An effort to privatize U.S. air traffic control in 2017 never took off. Now the aviation industry is uniting behind the Trump administration's plan to overhaul the system.

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Senators grill Trump's FAA nominee over past effort to alter pilot certification rule

4:26pm June 11, 2025

Republic Airways CEO Bryan Bedford was tapped in March to helm the agency. It's critical time for U.S. air travel, following a deadly January collision and ongoing air traffic control system problems.

Staffing Shortages And Technology Issues Cause Week-Long Delays At Newark Airport

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'No more floppy disks': Air traffic control overhaul faces some daunting obstacles

5:00am June 06, 2025

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.

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Disbelief, then fury: A Newark air traffic controller says they saw a crisis coming

5:00am May 22, 2025

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

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The top image is a map of the San Francisco airport created from Harris Symphony OpsVue radar track data analysis of an an Air Canada flight trying to land on July 7. The bottom image was taken from San Francisco International Airport video.

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NTSB: Air Canada Jet Came Much Closer To Landing On Other Planes Than Thought

8:34pm August 02, 2017

by David Schaper

Investigators say the airliner trying to land in San Francisco could have caused a horrible disaster. Its pilots thought a taxiway with four planes waiting to take off was their assigned landing site.