Tag: atc
NEWS Jul 12, 2026 500+ Flights Canceled: Storms and Air Traffic Control Shortages Hit New York Airports Severe weather and FAA staffing shortages triggered over 500 cancellations and 4,000 delays across New York area airports this week. Read More →
NEWS Jul 07, 2026 FAA Selects L3Harris to Overhaul Aging Air Traffic Surveillance Network The FAA has awarded L3Harris a contract to modernize its national surveillance system, replacing decades-old infrastructure that tracks aircraft across US airspace. Read More →
NEWS Jun 30, 2026 Delta CEO Ed Bastian Points to Congested Air Traffic Control as Airfares Climb More Than 20% Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian suggests an overburdened air traffic control system may provide some explanation for driving domestic airfares up by more than 20% this year. Read More →
INFORMATIONAL Jun 04, 2026 Slot Management and Priority Handling: Where Air Ambulances Fit in Busy Airports When we talk about air ambulance services, people usually focus on the airplane, the medical crew on board, and the urgency of the patient’s condition. What is usually overlooked is the operational side of the process – especially the aspect involving operating an aircraft through one of Europe’s busiest airports with strict slot management policies. Read More →
NEWS May 08, 2026 Two Southwest Jets Clipped Each Other at the Gate in Baltimore Where ATC Has No Eyes Two Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft collided during pushback at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport. Read More →
NEWS Apr 22, 2026 The US Is Building an AI Brain for Its Skies, and the Man in Charge Says Controllers Have Nothing to Fear The United States federal government has placed artificial intelligence at the heart of its most ambitious aviation modernisation programme in a generation, and the official leading that effort has used his most unambiguous language yet to silence fears that AI will one day make air traffic controllers obsolete. Read More →
NEWS Apr 20, 2026 Two Southwest Boeing Jets Nearly Collided Over Nashville and the Blame Points Squarely at an Air Traffic Control Error A serious aviation safety incident unfolded in the skies just north of Nashville International Airport when two Southwest Airlines jets came perilously close to colliding in mid-air. Read More →
NEWS Apr 13, 2026 Federal Watchdog Warns America's Air Traffic Control Systems Are Wide Open to Cyberattack A damning federal audit has exposed deep cybersecurity failings at the heart of America's aviation infrastructure, revealing that the Federal Aviation Administration has left dozens of its most safety-critical systems dangerously under-protected, raising the prospect of a catastrophic cyberattack on the nation's skies. Read More →
NEWS Apr 10, 2026 Why the US Government Is Recruiting Video Gamers to Keep Your Flight Safe The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has launched its most unconventional recruitment drive yet, targeting video gamers to fill a chronic and increasingly dangerous shortage of air traffic controllers. Read More →
NEWS Apr 10, 2026 Frontier Airlines Pilots Narrowly Avoid a Catastrophe at LAX After Two Trucks Cut Across Their Path in the Dark A Frontier Airlines crew had to slam on the brakes to avoid a collision with two service trucks that cut across their path in the dead of night. Read More →