The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. It’s causing problems not just for the air traffic controllers that remain ...
But one thing has been clear for decades: America’s air-traffic control system, once the world’s most advanced, has become an international disgrace. Long before the Obama and Biden administrations’ ...
THEY’VE NEVER REALLY HAD ENOUGH CONTROLLERS. IT WAS DURING THAT STRIKE FORMER PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN FIRED 11,000 AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS, AND THEY STILL DON’T HAVE ENOUGH WORKERS.