The FAA basically decided the students were too white and the schools too elite, so in 2013 knocked them off the preferred hiring list,” claimed lawyer Michael Pearson.

A 2023 report warned the FAA that air traffic controllers were increasingly making last-minute flight adjustments due to ...

I was a Federal Aviation Administration employee for 38 years, working as an air traffic controller at facilities in ...

In 2014, under President Barack Obama, the FAA introduced a Biographical Assessment test designed to help qualified ...

A devastating mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter over the Potomac River has ATC's ...

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

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 ...

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

“People are scared and angry here,” one staffer working in air traffic control tells Rolling Stone ... if there’s evidence that they violated some kind of implicit loyalty test to the new government.

“Air traffic controllers are responsible for operating ... Most students get only one chance to pass or fail the FAA Academy test. The salary for a controller can range anywhere from $75K ...

Two letter writers take President Donald Trump to task for comments he made following a deadly collision of an Army ...

“People are scared and angry here,” one staffer working in air traffic control tells Rolling Stone ... violated some kind of implicit loyalty test to the new government.