Air traffic controllers, who have long endured staffing shortages, are facing increasingly strenuous schedules. The workloads have led some controllers to use alcohol, sleeping pills, and drugs to ...

A display shows the status of delayed flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. on May 5, 2025. (Seth Wenig/AP) Air traffic controllers directing planes into Newark Liberty ...

Air traffic controllers who lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to hundreds of delays for more than a week, are taking special government ...

When a midair collision and a series of radar outages captured attention in the United States this year, some air traffic controllers thought it might finally lead to solutions for a nationwide ...

The Federal Aviation Administration needs to take steps to reduce fatigue and stress among the air traffic controllers who oversee 45,000 flights daily, a report warned on Friday. The three-person ...

Less than 10% of the nation's airport terminal towers have enough air traffic controllers to meet a set of standards set by a working group that included the Federal Aviation Administration and the ...

Air traffic controllers directing planes into Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey early Friday morning lost radar for the second time in two weeks, according to the Federal Aviation ...