The U.S. air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point. It's causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain but the flying public at large.
The basic problem, which reformers have been trying to remedy since the Clinton administration, is that the system is operated by a cumbersome federal bureaucracy—the same bureaucracy that’s also ...
The latest aviation strategy from the US Marine Corps calls for half of the service's vertical/short take-off and landing ...
The horrific air crash in Washington, D.C. is focusing attention on the shortage of air-traffic controllers. The problem with the system, however, goes far deeper.