The ‘Control Tower Continuity Act,’ as proposed, would allow the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to exempt certain air traffic controllers from the mandatory retirement requirement at age 56, ...

The FAA is a mess. Annexing our neighbors to the north, as Trump favors, looks like a longshot. But we should copy its ...

Given the meteoric rise of AI applications, the control tower may be ripe for full automation in the near future. Human ...

Maryland transportation officials joined state leaders to break ground on Martin State Airport’s new air traffic control ...

A project to make the skies safer over the east valley is in the works. An air traffic control tower at the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport (KTRM) in Thermal is expected to start construction in ...

As commercial air traffic surges back to pre-pandemic levels—and in many regions, surpasses them—aviation’s longstanding ...

In February, the Maryland Board of Public Works approved a $22 million contract for the project to help improve the airport’s ...

What we don’t have is the most efficient system. Report after report has shown that it is because of obsolete technology and inadequate staffing in our nation’s air traffic control towers.

"No more floppy disks or paper strips." It's a goal that has eluded all of Rocheleau's predecessors. Walking into many of the nation's air traffic control towers is like stepping back in time.

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.

Martin State Airport celebrated the groundbreaking of its new, state-of-the-art air traffic control tower on July 7 — a ...

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.