The government shutdown and recent accidents have shown the Air Traffic Control system’s vulnerability. It should be turned into an independent, nonprofit organization removed from politics. The ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty The US federal government has now officially been shut down for more than two weeks, and the nation’s air travel system is ...

The Modern Skies Coalition demonstrates how labor, manufacturers, airlines, and airports came together in a strategic campaign to achieve a national imperative.

Roughly 750,000 federal employees were furloughed when the government closed its doors. Not included in that number are the air traffic controllers who will continue to work, without pay, as long as ...

Dec. 5 (UPI) --The Department of Transportation announced it selected an integrator to manage upgrades to the U.S. air traffic control system, which in recent years has seen failures and outages that ...

Dozens of aviation groups warned House and Senate leaders on Monday that a government shutdown would delay federal inspections of aircraft and postpone repair work on “critical” air traffic control ...

The government picked a company with little experience working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control ...

Air traffic control is probably something you don't spend much time thinking about—but when you board an airplane, you really want it to work. Unfortunately, the American air traffic control system is ...