Staffing Issues Causing Delays at Las Vegas Airport

Staffing issues causing delays at Las Vegas airport

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- Staffing issues have caused delays Thursday night at the Harry Reid International Airport, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). According to a release, there is a Traffic Management Program in effect for traffic arriving at the airport because of staffing issues. The FAA did not specify what staffing issues were the cause of the Traffic Management Program. The Traffic Management Program was causing some arr…

FAA academy in OKC sees record number of students amid air traffic controller shortage

A hiring push has brought more air traffic control trainees to Oklahoma months after a KOCO 5 investigation found that the number of students attending the academy was far below its physical capacity for years.

Staffing issues, weather cause delays at Harry Reid International Airport

Staffing issues and weather at Harry Reid International Airport are causing arrival delays averaging 53 minutes, with potential impacts on departures as well.

'Morale just really plummets': Air traffic controllers rail against Trump's new proposal

When a recent midair collision and a slew of radar failures brought attention to the plight of America’s overworked and dwindling legion air traffic controllers, employees hoped there was finally a fix in the works.But then controllers watched with disappointment as the federal response boiled down to equipment upgrades and proposals to ramp up hiring. NPR reports these plans fail to address decades of burdensome problems including grueling sche…

Air traffic controllers say a push to modernize equipment won’t fix deeper problems

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 staffing shortage and other longstanding problems at the country’s air traffic facilities.“Everybody’s talking about us,” said one controller who works at a facility in the Midwest that handles high-altitude traffic. “You have that one moment of like, ‘oh…

Air traffic controllers say a push to modernize equipment won't fix deeper problems

Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say the Trump administration's focus on new equipment doesn't address problems like grueling schedules and stagnating pay that are hurting morale.