Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is expanding the number of schools that can participate in a fast-tracked air traffic control training program, as the administration seeks more ways to address ...

New programs cannot turn out the numbers needed to make up for the controller shortfall. But they hope to have a higher success rate than the Federal Aviation Agency’s official academy. New programs ...

In a dark noisy room in Oklahoma, air traffic control trainees hunch over radar screens as they track planes flying through congested airspace in the Deep South. They are flights that don't actually ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — The U.S. is facing a shortage of about 3,000 air traffic controllers. Ohio State’s aviation center hopes to help. “A lot of other collegiate aviation programs have air traffic ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — Students in a building located at Bartow Executive Airport are using a $280,000 simulator, typically reserved for the military and a few other schools in the nation. The ...

WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of three U.S. senators on Tuesday called for new funding to boost air traffic control staffing, speed training of new controllers and provide new ...

How a Catholic university is preparing the next generation of air traffic controllers to manage the sky and keep travelers safe. Lewis University students scan screens as they learn how to keep planes ...

The Transportation Department's inspector general has initiated an audit to examine the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) training of new air traffic controllers, according to an official ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Even though the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has grounded flights due to air traffic control staffing shortages during the government shutdown, training to fill job ...