The Department of Transportation is rolling out a new website to track progress in the sprawling effort to modernize the ...

A new FAA website lets you see just how far the $12.5 billion allotted to fixing the National Airspace System has gone.

A threat to crash a plane into the U.S. Capitol was broadcast on a New York air traffic control system by someone vowing ...

An ad aimed at recruiting gamers to be air traffic controllers asks, "Are you up for the challenge? You've been training for this." Photo Credit: U.S. Department of Transportation The FAA, pushing to ...

On March 22, I was a passenger on Air Canada Express Flight 8646 from Montréal to LaGuardia Airport that upon landing crashed into a fire truck that should not have been on the runway, resulting in ...

This week’s deadly collision at LaGuardia Airport has renewed concerns about how much is too much for one air traffic controller to handle. Controllers, already spread thin by decades of staffing ...

Young people told by their parents to stop wasting their time playing video games and get a job now have a way to meld the two together, courtesy of the Department of Transportation. As the U.S. deals ...

Parents have long worried that video gaming corrupts their kids’ brains. Now the U.S. government is proclaiming that all is not lost, and that in fact a lucrative career path awaits as an air traffic ...

Air traffic control (ATC) has long been one of the most demanding jobs in commercial aviation, and, in 2026, it remains one of the best-compensated as well. The headline salary figures only tell part ...