Air Traffic Control

After organizing controllers into work crews earlier in 2020 to protect against COVID-19 infections, the FAA is allowing more staffing flexibility at its air traffic control (ATC) facilities.

Beijing Capital International Airport (PEK) has called for tenders for laying a fourth runway, part of a larger upgrade program for the facility made possible by the opening of another airport in the city last year.

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Under a new long-term master plan, London City Airport (LCY) is expecting to handle 11 million passengers by the mid-to-late 2030s–more than double the 5.1 million that it handled in 2019.

Rockets and drones will soon crowd a U.S. National Airspace System that was becoming very congested before COVID thinned out commercial traffic. How

Air navigation service providers must maintain their networks and cannot easily furlough controllers during the COVID-19 crisis.

It took eight launches over two years to put up 66 satellites plus six spares (with nine more stored on the ground), replacing the original Iridium constellation launched in the 1990s.

Air traffic controllers (ATCs) are participating in a general strike in Greece expected to last for 24 hrs. over Oct. 15-16.