The agency is short about 3,000 air traffic controllers, and even an ambitious hiring surge would only make a dent in coming ...

Staff are burnt out — and very concerned about safety and feel very strongly that those moved to Philadelphia should come ...

A watchdog for the US Transportation Department has initiated a probe into the decision to relocate a key piece of Newark ...

A U.S. government watchdog said on Monday it will probe the Federal Aviation Administration's 2024 decision to relocate some ...

Newark airport faces delays amid staffing shortages, adding to challenges from equipment outages and runway construction that ...

The Federal Aviation Administration’s decision last year to move some air traffic controllers from Westbury to Philadelphia ...

Twice in the past two-and-a-half weeks, the radar and communications systems that air traffic controllers in Philadelphia who direct planes in and out of Newark rely on failed for a short time. That ...

I would probably avoid Newark until something else is done,” Stewart, a supervisory air traffic controller, said during his Friday night appearance on NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports.” ...

The FAA currently has 22 fully certified air traffic controllers and five supervisors assigned to Newark in the Philadelphia facility, but the agency wants to have 38 controllers there.

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks. The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar ...

The already short-staffed air traffic control facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark lost five controllers to trauma leave after the first radar and communications ...