Air traffic controllers missed their first paychecks Tuesday amid the ongoing U.S. government shutdown. One controller, Zac Ploch, is speaking out. With 10 years of experience, Ploch has spent the ...

Air traffic controllers are the unseen guardians of the skies, ensuring that every aircraft moves safely and efficiently from take-off to landing. Whether guiding a single-engine Cessna or a fully ...

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working with the Federal Aviation Administration called Peraton to oversee the roughly $31.5 billion overhaul of the outdated air traffic control ...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 controllers ensure the safety of nearly a billion people per year. They are the unseen voices keeping America’s airspace from turning into a sky-high traffic jam. But what exactly do air ...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued three ground stops at major U.S. airports Thursday evening due to staffing shortages—and unpaid air traffic controllers have told Forbes the volume of ...

"It’s getting more tense, more stressful,” one veteran flight controller—who has resorted to delivering food to pay his bills—tells PEOPLE Johnny Dodd is a senior writer at PEOPLE, who focuses on ...

Updated October 9, 2025 at 9:18 AM EDT Air traffic controllers will continue to work under strain as the government shutdown drags on, according to the head of the union that represents them. "What ...

President Donald Trump and former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg have sparred over the condition of the air ...

The flight reductions imposed during the government shutdown are now over; the Federal Aviation Administration lifted them early Monday morning. Forty major U.S. airports and more than 5 million ...