Air traffic controllers at Reagan National Airport are understaffed and working six-day weeks, according to the National Air Traffic Controllers Association. By the numbersNATCA tells FOX 5 DC that ...

Federal aviation authorities have been trying for years to hire more air traffic controllers, but they've fallen short of their goals. We look at why it's so hard to train enough controllers.

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Federal Aviation Administration's overtime costs for air traffic controllers have jumped by more than 300% since 2013 as the agency faces hiring ...

The U.S. needs all the new air traffic controllers it can get. The FAA is more than 3,000 certified controllers short of full staffing, and personnel at many facilities are working mandatory ...

Air traffic controllers in Florida briefly lost their radar after a fiber optic line was cut, ... 2008, in New York. Edouard H.R. Gluck/AP.

The FAA said the outage was momentary, but when air traffic controllers in a different facility in Philadelphia lost radar twice this spring it took 90 seconds for their systems to reboot after ...