Air traffic controllers earn about $160,000 on average, and the job doesn't require a college degree. Still, the government is short by 3,000 people.

A veteran New Jersey air traffic controller has revealed he was forced to scribble handwritten flight details in a notebook amid fears his radar equipment would go dark.

Air traffic controllers are currently on trauma leave after a 90-second outage created chaos at Newark Liberty International Airport.

What to know about the air traffic controller shortage The need for more controllers isn't a new issue or one that will be resolved quickly.

Air traffic controllers have been under strain for years, but a 90-second equipment failure last week exposed how decades of staffing shortages, underinvestment and patchwork solutions for those ...

The Trump administration will update the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)'s traffic systems following months of high-profile airline incidents.

The FAA is bound by stultifying federal rules and sees Congress, not the traveling public, as its customer. Air-traffic control is not inherently a governmental function.

Air traffic controllers have been under strain for years, but a 90-second equipment failure last week exposed how decades of staffing shortages, underinvestment and patchwork solutions for those ...

The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower mishaps and a string of crashes earlier this year.

The Trump administration is promising to fix the nationwide shortage of air traffic controllers after recent control tower troubles on the East Coast and a string of crashes this year.