Traffic lights today are controlled by computers and other purpose-built systems, but what did people do before computers ...

How many airports in the U.S. have control towers? Of the 5,100 public airports across the country, only about 10% have towers staffed by people who direct the flow of traffic. These are the busiest ...

Blacked-out air traffic control screens and communication issues in places like Newark, Denver and Jacksonville over the past several months have put a renewed focus on the U.S.' aging air traffic ...

In 1967 Lyndon Baines Johnson was president. The war was in full swing and the United States had almost half a million soldiers in Vietnam. The biggest concern for most young men was their military ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy called for a massive investment of billions of dollars in the country’s air traffic control system following a series of issues that have plagued it, most recently ...

The FAA's training academy in Oklahoma City is operating in spite of the government shutdown, but air traffic control trainees are still feeling its impact. We've heard a lot about how the government ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Bob Poole, with the Reason Foundation, who argues that privatizing air traffic control in the U.S. would bring more stable funding and fewer travel disruptions.