Air traffic control (ATC) systems are increasingly leveraging sophisticated speech recognition technologies to enhance communication between controllers and pilots, thereby improving operational ...

Roughly 750,000 federal employees were furloughed when the government closed its doors. Not included in that number are the air traffic controllers who will continue to work, without pay, as long as ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1981 the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization went on strike for higher wages, a reduced workweek, and better working conditions. Then-president Ronald Reagan’s response was to fire ...

Blacked-out air traffic control screens and communication issues in places like Newark, Denver and Jacksonville over the past several months have put a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic ...