The issue of understaffed air traffic control centers is prevalent across the country, as shown by data provided by the FAA.

President Ronald Reagan’s hard-line approach to public-sector unions in the early 1980s—especially his firing of striking air traffic controllers—emboldened private-sector employers such as ...

Not only did Reagan fire the 11,000 striking federal workers of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, thereby setting a tone in 1981, but the National Labor Relations Board under ...

It told managers that workers would vote the agreement down, but that union leaders had assured him they wouldn’t challenge provisions to “right size the organization ... s 1981 mass firing of ...

The Federal Aviation Administration plans to hire 2,000 air traffic controller trainees this year and maintain strict ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy will unveil a plan next week to upgrade the aging, under-staffed U.S. air traffic control ...

Every day, millions of travelers’ lives are literally up in the air, relying on the acuity of air traffic controllers ... the average certified professional controller earns over $160,000 ...

Though no air traffic controllers were let go, other essential FAA workers were dismissed, officials said. Dave Spero is the president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, the union ...

There has been a slate of major aviation disasters this year, including the mid-air collision near Washington, D.C., and a Scottsdale crash involving Mötley Crüe singer Vince Neil's airplane.