The air traffic control tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport was 69% staffed as of September 2023, according to Federal Aviation Administration figures.

Recent outages at Newark Airport highlighted the challenges facing air traffic controllers. What's the science underpinning ...

Air traffic controllers often sit in a darkened room, understaffed, staring at radar scopes with airspace filled to capacity making split second decisions where hundreds of lives hang in the balance.

An exclusive video obtained by CBS News shows inside the problem-plagued air traffic control facility that handles flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport during the brief ...

A shortage of air traffic controllers is one factor into the rough stretch of delays and cancellations at Newark Airport.

Air traffic controllers, though ... remember what's going on with the people inside it.

But when bad weather strikes, or when other issues occur like the tech outages that have been plaguing Newark Liberty International Airport over the past month, air traffic controllers, already ...

WEST TEN EIGHT. GO HEAD CONTACT TOWER. THIS IS ABOUT AS CLOSE AS YOU CAN GET TO REALLY BEING INSIDE AN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL TOWER. THIS SIMULATOR IS BRAND NEW AT NASHUA COMMUNITY COLLEGE AHEAD OF ...

Simply stated, air-traffic control is a 24/7 high-tech operation trapped inside a regulatory agency. The FAA is bound by stultifying federal rules and sees Congress, not the traveling public ...

Today, we're going to hear a perspective from inside that system from an air traffic controller who was working the airspace around Newark during one of those outages. NPR's Joel Rose covers ...

With a trio of air traffic control equipment failures in little more than a week, Newark Liberty Airport has become the poster child for the problems plaguing the nation‘s airports. The meltdown ...