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The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a January fatal mid-air ...
A preview of Trump’s proposed budget released Friday included a $1.2 billion boost for air traffic control; a key House committee last week approved $12.5 billion as part of a funding bill.
Parts of the U.S. air traffic control system still rely on floppy disks and computers running Windows 95. The Trump administration is pushing for an overhaul, but it won't be easy or cheap.
The Trump administration has announced a plan to replace the country’s aging air traffic control system with an all-new technology—but needs Congress to allot tens of billions of dollars.
Congressman Andre Carson criticized the Trump administration for not following Congressional directives on air traffic controller hiring, and for firing several hundred FAA employees, which he ...
The FAA has around 14,000 air traffic controllers, about 1,800 of whom were hired last year. The agency still needs around 3,000 more amid concerns that recent staffing levels could affect ...
President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing to spend billions in the latest bid to fix America’s outdated and understaffed air traffic control system, but his team will have to launch ...