Dozens of controllers have departed the U.S. to take jobs overseeing air-traffic in Australia; ‘everybody knows about it.’ ...

Concerns among pilots about possible mid-air collisions are spilling over in Australia as a shortage of air traffic controllers leaves airport towers unmanned, forcing passenger jets to fend for ...

Sydney Airport came close to completely shutting down take-offs on the afternoon of Friday September 12, when staff illness, on top of longstanding shortages left only a skeleton crew of air traffic ...

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U.S. air traffic controllers are choosing to head to Australia in large numbers. Their departures appear to be accelerating as chronic staffing shortages and poor working conditions are compounded by ...

The current Trump administration is again focused on reforming air traffic control, following a recent spate of technical outages and staffing shortages as well as the January midair collision between ...

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 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 ...