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To be considered as an air traffic controller, candidates must be U.S. citizens under the age of 31, clear both a medical exam and security investigation, pass the FAA air traffic pre-employment ...
Air traffic controlling dates to the early 1920s in the United Kingdom (UK). [4] [5] The first control tower was established in 1920 at Croydon Airport, but it wasn't until the 1922 Picardie mid-air collision that air traffic control gained wider attention.
An American Airlines Airbus A319 airplane takes off past the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., in 2023.
A U.S. Senate committee on Thursday voted on legislation to boost safety inspector and air traffic controller staffing, but declined to endorse raising the airline pilot retirement age to 67 from 65.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA) is a labor union in the United States. It is affiliated with the AFL–CIO, and is the exclusive bargaining representative for air traffic controllers employed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). It also represents a range of workers related to the air traffic control (ATC ...
The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was a United States trade union of air traffic controllers that operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following an illegal strike broken by the Reagan administration; in striking, the union violated 5 U.S.C. (Supp. III 1956) 118p (now 5 U.S.C. § 7311), which prohibits strikes by federal government employees.
The US air traffic control system has been stretched nearly to its breaking point by a decades-long staffing shortage. ... The Federal Aviation Administration, which runs the air traffic system ...
The American aviation system is the busiest in the world and continues growing. With the size and scope of the American aviation system, the air traffic control system "still utilizes World War II-era radar technology.” According to the House Transportation Committee, “We have an antiquated, inefficient air traffic control system.