Air Traffic Controller Laura Downey has nine years of experience (Image: Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin) (Image: Colin Keegan, Collins, Dublin) ...

Biodiversity Manager at Heathrow Airport, Adam Cheeseman, and local school kids Subhan, Sarrah and Amin at a new Nature Traffic Control Tower, a birdwatching hideaway designed to resemble Heathrow ...

April 30, 2025 at 0:01am BST. A bird hide designed to resemble an air traffic control tower has been unveiled near Heathrow airport. The structure allows visitors to watch wildlife at one of the ...

Congress approved a sweeping budget deal that includes $12.5 billion to modernize America’s aging air traffic control system.

The plan also includes investing in new ground radar sensors on tarmacs and at airports, a new flight management system and some new air traffic control towers and other facilities, Duffy said.

An air traffic control tower at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. [Shutterstock] With Newark Liberty International Airport (KEWR) still recovering from a 90-second air traffic ...

Of the 290 FAA-operated air traffic control towers spread across America in 2023 (the most recent year with available data), 128 were considered understaffed, falling below the FAA’s 85% ...

The airport will also need to get started on a big capital project in the coming years: replacing the airport's air traffic control tower from 1962, Camacho said. "That new tower is not cheap, because ...

The FAA would build 15 new towers combined with Terminal Radar Approach Control facilities at airports across the country. 25,000 radios The FAA relies on aging radio equipment to allow air ...

A new control tower is part of the airport's master plan due to the aged condition and line of sight issues with the current tower, located south of the main runway and east of the crossing runway.

The control tower at Reagan National Washington Airport is shown on Jan. 30, in Arlington, Va. The plan comes after years of mounting problems at airports and a series of incidents just this year.

The Irish Mirror met one of them when we went behind the scenes at Dublin Airport’s Air Traffic Control Tower earlier this week.. Laura Downey, who has worked as an air traffic controller for ...