The Federal Aviation Administration has signed first-of-their-kind agreements with two schools to train new hires to be air traffic controllers, with the agency hoping to continue and build upon its ...

In a dark noisy room in Oklahoma, air traffic control trainees hunch over radar screens as they track planes flying through congested airspace in the Deep South. They are flights that don't actually ...

Air traffic controllers have been in the news a lot lately. A spate of airplane crashes and near misses have highlighted the ongoing shortage of air traffic workers, leading more Americans to question ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air traffic controllers observe a plane taking off from San Francisco International Airport in 2017. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Air ...

Elvira Pereyaslov sat with her headset on at Vaughn College near LaGuardia Airport, relaying flight information Tuesday. With each simulated flight, she had to plan for incoming landings on the screen ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Even though the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has grounded flights due to air traffic control staffing shortages during the government shutdown, training to fill job ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has touted the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) collegiate training program aimed at bolstering the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) staff. In a post on the ...

In his first few days guiding aircraft at the Oakland, California, air traffic control center, trainee Ryan Higgins deleted a plane’s data from the radar screen. It was untrackable for a few frantic ...

This involved an extensive review of the ground, simulation, and flight training procedures Beta has been using to train its own test pilot cadre. The company said the LOA enables it to begin training ...