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.

The FAA is still short roughly 3,000 air traffic controllers and is in the process of updating copper telecommunications wires with a brand-new fiber-optic network. Filed under air-traffic controllers ...

For roughly 90 seconds, air traffic controllers could not see or communicate with United Airlines Flight 1951 from New Orleans to Newark. The lapse contributed to more than a week of widespread ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has about 14,000 air traffic controllers. More than 1,800 were hired last year, the largest number in nearly a decade, and the government is on track to hire ...

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 FAA has around 14,000 air traffic controllers, about 1,800 of whom were hired last year. The agency still needs around 3,000 more amid concerns that recent staffing levels could affect ...

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, as ...

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 Federal Aviation Administration has about 14,000 air traffic controllers. More than 1,800 were hired last year, the largest number in nearly a decade, and the government is on track to hire ...

The Federal Aviation Administration has about 14,000 air traffic controllers. More than 1,800 were hired last year, the largest number in nearly a decade, and the government is on track to hire ...