A nationwide shortage of air-traffic controllers is straining operations at Nashville International Airport. The airport's control tower is understaffed and uses aging technology, increasing ...

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When a midair collision and a series of radar outages captured attention in the United States this year, some air traffic controllers thought it might finally lead to solutions for a nationwide ...

Usually when airplanes have to go into a holding pattern, it's because of weather or some other danger preventing them from landing. But passengers on one recent French flight got a tour of the ...