AUS Tower Has 'Less than Half' of Recommended Air Traffic Controllers: Doggett

AUS tower has 'less than half' of recommended air traffic controllers: Doggett

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Austin-Bergstrom International Airport is undergoing improvements worth billions of dollars, but still lacks sufficient air traffic controllers, or ATCs, according to one of Austin's congressional representatives. Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, said that he recently met with AUS air traffic controllers and with a representative from the Federal Aviation Administration, or FAA. "We have some more trainees coming in, but we don't ha…

New Report Highlights Air Traffic Control Staffing Woes

WASHINGTON — A new report released Wednesday highlighted the Federal Aviation Administration’s struggles to address critical staffing shortages among air traffic controllers and called on Congress to help the agency reverse the trend.

FAA air traffic overtime costs soar as hiring lags, report says

By David Shepardson

FAA air traffic overtime soars as hiring lags, report says

WASHINGTON — The Federal Aviation Administration's overtime costs for air traffic controllers have jumped by more than 300% since 2013 as the agency faces hiring constraints and a misallocated workforce, a report from the National Academies of Sciences released Wednesday…

Report Shows Continuing Lag in ATC Hiring

A report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released on Wednesday may offer the most comprehensive view yet of the nation’s air traffic controller shortage and the potential paths to resolve it. The National Academies, which performs research for the federal government, found that ATC staffing levels have been declining for 15 years. In 2010, the number of understaffed ATC facilities was relatively small, and some…