The U.S. needs thousands of additional air traffic controllers, but training and certifying them can take years. NPR visits one school that's trying to get controllers on the job faster.

The FAA said a backup system kicked so the outage didn't lead to flight disruptions like what happened after similar outages ...

Air traffic controllers in Florida briefly lost their radar after a fiber optic line was cut, but the outage didn’t lead to ...

Newark Airport faces delays due to FAA Traffic Management Program triggered by staffing shortages, with flights delayed over ...

While faulting some towers for inefficient practices, the report recognized significant external factors and called on ...

As US airports get busier, some are struggling to cope. Ageing technology and bad weather are often blamed for cancelled ...

And Duffy emphasized that the Newark radar outages and air traffic control shortage are a prime example of why the antiquated system needs to be improved. “I’m concerned that we could have ...

Another brief outage hit Newark Airport's air traffic control and one airline is rolling out a new system to prevent ...

Walking into many of the nation's air traffic control towers is like stepping ... that led to hundreds of delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

A Newark air traffic controller says he's not sure if he'll ever return to the job after several equipment failures caused some air traffic controllers to lose communication with pilots in late ...

CBS News New York investigative reporter Tim McNicholas spoke to a Newark air traffic controller who says he's not sure if he'll ever return to the job. He and several of his colleagues took ...