Aerotime

JUNE 3, 2025

While Ryanair has long campaigned for reform to ensure air traffic control centers are fully staffed to handle the forecast flows of air traffic volumes, the airline says that air traffic control (ATC) delays are getting worse, as evidenced by the delays to and from London Stansted due to NATS staff shortages.

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Flying Magazine

APRIL 29, 2025

House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure would set aside $15 billion for the FAA to modernize air traffic control (ATC) systems. The collision, which killed 67 people , raised concerns about the integrity of the ATC system at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (KDCA) and air traffic congestion generally.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 31, 2024

On December 27, 2024, at around 16:30 local time, air traffic controllers instructed the chartered Embraer E135 jet, operated by Key Lime Air, to stop before crossing runway 24L at LAX, because Delta flight 471 was taking off from that runway at the time, according to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

On August 28, 2023, around 300,000 travelers faced swathes of cancellations when the air traffic control system that keeps the UK’s skies safe suffered a fault. The set of data came from the airline French Bee, which was operating a flight due to depart Los Angeles International Airport (LAS) for Paris Orly Airport (ORY).

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

NTSB has been provided updated information that shows the air traffic control tower display at DCA is fed by the Potomac TRACON. The TRACON fuses information from multiple radar sensors and ADS-B data, providing the best quality flight track data to air traffic control.

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Simple Flying

JULY 3, 2025

A two-day strike by French air traffic controllers is expected to cause at least 1,500 flight cancellations in the coming days, leading to major disruption for European airlines at the beginning of the peak summer travel season.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The aircraft, operated by all-cargo airline Total Linhas Aereas was operating a domestic cargo flight from Vitoria to Sao Paulo when the crew received a cargo fire warning, forcing the emergency landing. A Boeing 737-400F has been destroyed after it caught fire in flight and was forced to make an emergency landing in Sao Paulo.

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Aerotime

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Manchester Airport (MAN) located in the north of England, and Britains third busiest airport in terms of passenger throughput, is to be the UKs first major international airport to adopt a hybrid digital control tower as part of a project announced by the UKs National Air Traffic Control Service, or NATS.

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Air Traffic Control Approach Airline Airlines 242

Aerotime

MARCH 28, 2025

Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was one of the worst aviation disasters in modern US history. No emergency had been declared, so Alaska Airlines Flight 261 was being treated as a regular incoming flight. At around 24,000 feet, the crew got the aircraft largely under control. Sadly, though, it was not to be.

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Horizontal Stabilizer Stability Airlines Airline 278

Aerotime

JANUARY 15, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has begun an investigation into a midair incident involving a United Airlines Boeing 737-900ER and a Delta Air Lines Airbus A330-300. On approach the United Airlines aircraft was assigned runway 07R and the Delta jet was given clearance to land on runway 08.

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Aerotime

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 rolled backward and away from its parking stand at Delhi Airport in India after its crew reportedly failed to set the parking brakes correctly. Flightradar24 Following the incident, Singapore Airlines released a statement giving further details about what had happened. “A

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Cabin Crew Air Traffic Control Airlines Airline 286

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As part of the industrial action, air traffic controllers walked out at 06:45 (local time) this morning, and joined thousands of other workers unhappy with the new federal governments plans to reform pensions and introduce new policies. AM to 10.15PM on 13/02. AM to 10.15PM on 13/02.

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Aerotime

JUNE 28, 2025

Delta Air Lines had to pull more than 100 aircraft for inspection after a massive hailstorm hit Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (ATL), the busiest airport in the United States and Delta’s main hub, on the evening of June 27, 2025.

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Air Traffic Control Airline Airlines 259

Simple Flying

MARCH 30, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with acting Administrator Chris Rocheleau has announced a goal of hiring 2,000 more air traffic controllers around the United States of America.

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Air Traffic Control Airline Airlines 92

Aerotime

JULY 3, 2025

Ryanair and easyJet are among several airlines that have been affected by planned air traffic control (ATC) strikes in France. Passengers due to fly to or over mainland Europe today are advised to check directly with their airline for latest updates on the status of their flight,” said a spokesperson for Dublin Airport.

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Air Traffic Control Airlines Airline 193

Aerotime

JANUARY 6, 2025

Spanish carriers Iberia and Iberia Express have been named the most punctual airlines in Europe in 2024, taking the two highest rankings in an industrywide survey published for the year. Iberia has been among the most punctual airlines in Europe and in the top 10 worldwide for the last nine years.

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Aerotime

MAY 6, 2025

Air traffic controllers at the Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON) have taken time off to recover from the stress of multiple recent outages at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced.

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Air Traffic Control Approach Airline Airlines 220

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

However, the crew stopped the climb at 6,000ft (1,829m) around four minutes after take-off and reported to air traffic controllers that the aircraft had struck a flock of birds on departure. The aircraft took off from runway 24 at Schiphol around 10:09 local time.

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Simple Flying

MARCH 23, 2025

The new United States Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, is moving forward with a clear priority of modernizing the United States air traffic control system.

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Aerotime

APRIL 25, 2025

On May 19, 2024, a United Airlines flight from Zurich to Chicago was diverted to Shannon Airport (SNN) in Ireland after a laptop became stuck beneath a business class seat. As with the recent Lufthansa flight, the United Airlines crew had been concerned about safety after they were unable to dislodge the laptop.

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Aerotime

JUNE 23, 2025

A SriLankan Airlines Airbus A320 suffered multiple failures of key flight instruments during a recent flight from Colombo to Singapore but managed to make an emergency landing in Medan after declaring a mayday to air traffic controllers. The aircraft involved in the incident is 14.2

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Aerotime

JANUARY 23, 2025

The parent company of easyJet has revealed that the airline group managed to significantly improve its financial performance during the last three months of 2024, the first quarter of its current financial year (Q1). At the groups easyJet Holidays subsidiary, the package holiday arm made 43 million ($55.9) in profits, up 12 million ($15.6)

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Air Traffic Control Airline Airlines 266

Aerotime

MARCH 17, 2025

Passengers traveling with German budget airline Eurowings from Dsseldorf in Germany to Troms in Norway were left unimpressed after an eight-hour journey that saw them landing back at the German airport from where they had originally departed.

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Aerotime

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Two LATAM Airlines aircraft have sustained damage after being involved in a ground collision at Sao Paulo’s Congonhas Airport (CGH) in Brazil. The airline has stated that it is cooperating fully with the Aeronautical Accident Investigation and Prevention Center (Cenipa), which will be conducting a full investigation into the incident.

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Tail Air Traffic Control Airplanes Airline 294

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The National Transportation Safety Bureau (NTSB) Chair Jennifer Homendy has suggested at her latest briefing that the Black Hawk helicopter crew may have missed a key instruction from air traffic controllers (ATC) before the crash with an American Eagle flight.

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Alaska Air

MAY 8, 2025

The post Alaska Air Group CEO, Ben Minicucci statement on DOT’s air traffic control action plan appeared first on Alaska Airlines News.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 6, 2025

The move comes despite the carrier being recently voted as one of the Best Airlines in 2024 as revealed by a survey conducted by US travel website WalletHub. Today’s action puts the airline industry on notice that we expect their flight schedules to reflect reality.

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Air Traffic Control Airline Airlines 278

Aerotime

APRIL 4, 2025

The recent search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 has been put on hold, 11 years after the Boeing 777 disappeared without a trace. On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people vanished from air traffic control radars less than an hour into its six-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.

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Aerotime

JUNE 9, 2025

United Airlines has suspended Starlink Wi-Fi service on around two dozen of its regional Embraer aircraft due to issues with static radio interference. The airline spokesperson said this kind of radio interference often occurs when introducing new connectivity solutions.

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Aerotime

JANUARY 21, 2025

At this point, some one hour and 15 minutes after departure and with the aircraft cruising at 37,000ft, the crew reported to air traffic controllers that they were experiencing a minor fuel indication issue.

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One Mile at a Time

MARCH 3, 2025

While air traffic controllers instructed them to maintain vertical separation, that wasnt realistic given the limited departure separation. Fortunately, as usual, TCAS (Traffic Collision Avoidance System) saved the day. Did the air traffic controllers actually clear both planes at virtually the same time?

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Aerotime

MARCH 6, 2025

A category two storm heading for the east coast of Australia has forced airports to close and airlines to cancel flights in preparation for up to 80 mph winds. In preparation for the storm multiple airports have gone into lockdown and airlines including Qantas and Virgin Australia have cancelled flights until March 9, 2025.

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Air Traffic Control Weather Flight Plan Airline 234

Aerotime

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Transport Safety Bureau (NTSB) in the US have launched an investigation following a ground collision involving a Japan Airlines (JAL) Boeing 787 Dreamliner and a Delta Air Lines Boeing 737 at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). Aucun bless bord.

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Aerotime

MARCH 30, 2025

During takeoff, the Delta aircraft’s onboard alert system detected a nearby aircraft, prompting air traffic controllers to issue immediate corrective instructions to both planes, successfully averting a potential collision. The Delta flight continued its journey and landed safely in Minneapolis.

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Air Traffic Control Jet Runway Airline 197

Aerotime

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

A pilot operating Boeing 767s on global routes and a consultant leveraging his extensive aviation and technology expertise, Christian also holds a First-Class Honours degree in Air Transport Operations and a master’s in Blockchain. The British Airline Pilots Association ( BALPA ) has also voiced strong opposition to reduced crew operations.

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Aerotime

JUNE 25, 2025

An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) into the door plug blowout aboard an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 has concluded that “multiple system failures” led to the incident on January 5, 2024. An accident like this only happens when there are multiple system failures,” said Homendy in her opening remarks.

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Flying Magazine

MAY 5, 2025

The disruptions at Newark are fueled by a combination of staffing shortages, equipment failures, and ongoing construction on one of the airports three runways used for commercial traffic. Keep in mind, this particular air traffic control facility has been chronically understaffed for years, Kirby wrote in a message to customers.

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