The government is opening some military airspace to ease airline congestion over Thanksgiving and Christmas, although the effort is likely to have only limited results, and if the weather's bad, all bets are off. ...more

November 19, 2008

The Federal Aviation Administration is expanding a collegiate training program to meet its needs to train and hire an estimated 17,000 new air traffic controllers in the next 10 years. ...more

October 14, 2008

Two more Florida colleges have been selected to create a pool of prospective air traffic controllers as the Federal Aviation Administration anticipates the need to hire 17,000 new controllers in the next 10 years. ...more

October 13, 2008

Two pilots for Hawaii's Go airlines who slept through their flight's landing procedure were suspended for the careless and reckless operation of an aircraft, the Federal Aviation Administration said Tuesday. ...more

September 25, 2008

Former Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Adam Goldstein, known as celebrity DJ AM, were injured critically in a fiery Learjet crash in South Carolina that killed four other people, including Barker's bodyguard and his personal assistant. ...more

September 21, 2008

Despite five chronically late flights serving Tampa International Airport in July, on-time arrival and departure performance improved compared with a year ago, according to a U.S. Department of Transportation report issued Wednesday. ...more

September 4, 2008

On a recent stormy Friday, a 30-mile band of severe weather centered over Gainesville blocked a major commercial airline corridor from the Northeast and Midwest into Tampa International Airport. ...more

August 7, 2008

The National Transportation Safety Board said Wednesday that it is investigating a near collision of airborne planes at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport - the third such incident at a major airport this month. ...more

July 24, 2008

A United Airlines jetliner was coming in for a landing at the Las Vegas airport in 2006 when the tower radioed that a smaller plane was still crossing the runway. ...more

July 4, 2008

The government system that issues preflight notices to pilots about runway, equipment and security issues has been down for more than 16 hours, but passenger safety has not been compromised, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. ...more

May 24, 2008