Yahoo

Air traffic controller shortages in Newark and other airports partly reflect long, intense training − but university-based training programs are becoming part of the solution

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Air traffic controllers observe a plane taking off from San Francisco International Airport in 2017. AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Air ...

The FAA Wants Gamers To Become Air Traffic Controllers – Here’s What The Job Pays

Amid a national shortage of air traffic controllers, the United States’ Department of Transportation (DOT) and Federal ...
Nextgov

FAA awards air traffic controller training contract to Raytheon

Ten-year deal consolidates two agreements, moves agency closer to transformation. The Federal Aviation Administration announced on Tuesday that it had awarded the second of two major contracts that ...
CBS News

FAA faces critical shortage of air traffic controllers. Here's a look into methods to retain and train them.

Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...
AOL

Keep air traffic controller training in OKC, congressional delegation urges FAA

Oklahoma's congressional delegation is asking the Federal Aviation Administration to reconsider plans to expand some air traffic controller training outside Oklahoma City. A report published last year ...
Government Executive

Amid hiring surge, FAA taps outside schools to boost air traffic controller training

The Federal Aviation Administration has signed first-of-their-kind agreements with two schools to train new hires to be air traffic controllers, with the agency hoping to continue and build upon its ...
Homeland Security Today

OIG Finds Inadequate Air Traffic Controller Staffing and Training at Critical Facilities

Ensuring adequate staffing and training for air traffic controllers—an essential part of maintaining the safety and efficiency of the National Airspace System (NAS)—has been a challenge for the ...
NPR

Inside a school that's working to fix the U.S. shortage of air traffic controllers

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Hailee Williamson calmly directs a virtual airplane to land on a runway that looks exactly like one at the airport in Oklahoma City where the Federal Aviation Administration ...
Aviation Week

FAA Grants Exemption For Controller Training

Contract air traffic control service provider Midwest ATC has obtained an exemption from the FAA that allows student controllers to use classroom and simulator training as credit toward a facility ...