John Oliver Calls Attention To Air Traffic Control Crisis With FAA Ad Spoof Featuring Lil Rel Howery, Keyla Monterroso Mejia & H. Jon Benjamin

Rochester's airport flagged as one of the most understaffed air traffic towers

ROCHESTER — As U.S. airports struggle with a shortage of air traffic controllers, the Rochester International Airport is ranked as one of the most-understaffed in the country, according to data from the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA air traffic control management and the air traffic controllers' union set Collaborative Resource Workgroup goals for the optimum number of certified controllers for each of the 290 towers. Rochester’s curr…

Oliver Tries To Blame Reagan For State of Air Traffic Control

Given recent plane crashes and the power outage at Newark Airport, HBO’s John Oliver decided to dedicate Sunday’s edition of Last Week Tonight to the state of air traffic control, where he turned back the clock to 1981 to declare former President Ronald Reagan to be the main villain. Introducing a news clip from 1981, Oliver declared, “And one major challenge for controllers today is that there simply aren't enough of them. We've actually been s…

John Oliver Tackles the Increasingly Fraught Subject of Air Traffic Control

John Oliver discusses the working conditions of air traffic controllers, why those conditions are impacting us all, and – for those under 30 – what a “floppy disk” is.

The Air Traffic Control Situation Is So Dire, It Earned The John Oliver Treatment

Spoiler alert: It isn't good.

John Oliver Calls Attention To Air Traffic Control Crisis With FAA Ad Spoof Featuring Lil Rel Howery, Keyla Monterroso Mejia & H. Jon Benjamin

Back after the Memorial Day weekend break, John Oliver wasted no time soaring through a topic needing urgent attention: the air traffic control crisis that has been looming and ongoing for years due to lack of investment. Beginning Last Week Tonight, the host made a quip about a 2023 headline concerning a FedEx plane that […]

‘I missed it because I was tired’: US air traffic control crisis exposes cracks in global aviation hub

The deeper crisis: fraying infrastructure, a shrinking workforce, and the emotional toll on air traffic controllers pushed to their limits. Read more at straitstimes.com.