The Federal Aviation Administration said on Thursday a preliminary review found that contract personnel unintentionally deleted files which led to the recent outage that disrupted over 11,000 flights.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s system-wide outage that led to mass flight delays and cancellations on Wednesday was the result of the actions of personnel who the agency said had “failed to follow procedures.”
The Federal Aviation Administration suffered a nationwide technical outage and ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. ET Wednesday morning.
A bargaining unit member at the FAA, facing removal from her job for running an Etsy store on her government time and equipment, turned to the union for defense.
Two federal employees have been suspended without pay for violating the Hatch Act while on duty.
The new paid parental leave law does not apply to some federal employees as written, but some lawmakers want to change that.
An ongoing effort in the House to privatize a portion of the FAA has come to an end.
Legislation that would privatize a portion of the FAA has been approved by the House Transportation Committee.
Legislation has been introduced in the House to privatize the nation’s air traffic control systems. It failed in the past, but could it succeed this time?
Will the nation’s air traffic control system be run by a non-profit entity outside of the federal government? The interest groups are lining up for what promises to be a hard fight in Congress.
