There are nearly 11,000 controllers currently on the job throughout the country, but to be fully staffed, the FAA needs more than 14,000. To apply, you have to be under 31 years old, and the mandatory ...

Controllers must meet strict eligibility requirements and complete years of training before taking charge of airspace.

The U.S.’s deadliest air crash in more than two decades serves as a reminder of the yearslong shortage of air-traffic ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the COVID-19 pandemic caused air traffic controller recruitment to "plummet" for two ...

Apparently only two people were on shift that evening, when there should have been four, and the team of 19 fully trained ATC (status SEP23) should ideally number 30, according to the controllers’ ...

Sen. Markwayne Mullin told “Fox News Live" that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Academy in Oklahoma struggled due ...

Okla., joins ‘Fox News Live’ to discuss upcoming congressional briefings on recent aviation disasters and the potential ...

During Trump’s first term, the FAA began a program to hire air traffic controllers with the conditions that Trump decried.

After the Washington, D.C., plane crash, Trump said he previously set "extraordinary" standards for air traffic control ...

President Donald Trump's remarks this week blaming diversity recruitment at the FAA as a potential reason for the plane crash ...

Donald Trump claimed, without citing evidence, that DEI initiatives at the FAA were partly to blame for the tragic plane and ...

A Georgia high school says that one of the soldiers involved in the mid-air collision was a former student and a member of their MCJROTC program.