Air traffic controllers are overworked and stressed — and that's dangerous for safe flying

Tech Insider
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 04: The Kansas City Chiefs United Airlines flight comes in for a landing behind the air traffic control tower for Super Bowl LVIII at Harry Reid International Airport on February 04, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
A United Airlines plane lands at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas.

Ethan Miller/Getty Images

Security footage shows how a man who died in a plane engine escaped the terminal and ran across the tarmac

Tech Insider : Travel
Delta Air Lines Airbus A220
A Delta Airbus A220.

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto/Getty

A man died after climbing inside the engine of a plane preparing to take off at Salt Lake City airport

Tech Insider
A Delta Air Lines plane on a runway with a green bank with a fence in the distance.
A Delta Air Lines plane.

Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Atlanta is No. 1 in this year's list of the top 10 busiest airports in the US

Tech Insider : Travel
Delta planes parked at atlanta airport.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport tops the list for the busiest in the US yet again. It's a major hub for Delta Air Lines.

Camilo Freedman/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

These are the world's top 10 busiest airports of 2023

Tech Insider
Travelers are seen ahead of the fourth of July holiday weekend at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on June 30, 2023.
Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport once again won the title of the world's busiest airport for 2023.

Elijah Nouvelage/AFP via Getty Images

Track the private jet set: Here are the 9 most popular airports for PJs

Tech Insider : Travel
Elon Musk, Taylor Swift, and a private jet
Elon Musk and Taylor Swift were among the wealthy taking to the skies in their private jets. Business Insider tracked the most popular airports for PJs.

Getty Images

EasyJet is setting up special orange mailboxes in airports around Europe to deliver kids' letters to Santa directly on flights to Lapland

Tech Insider
Santa Claus and easyJet cabin crew holding a bag of letters pose in front of an easyJet plane
Santa Claus and easyJet cabin crew.

Courtesy of easyJet

Exhausted air traffic controllers are making more mistakes on the job amid a stretched workforce doing 10-hour workdays and 6-day workweeks, report says

Tech Insider : Politics
Air traffic control

AP Photo/Seth Wenig

Some air traffic controllers who've endured 6-day workweeks and unrelenting schedules have turned to alcohol and drugs to avoid seeking professional help, report says

Tech Insider : Politics
Air Traffic Control Tower

Rafael Cordero/Getty

Self-service security screening is coming to airports, but PreCheck passengers are getting priority

Tech Insider
Vanderlande's prototype, the PAX MX2.
Vanderlande's prototype, the PAX MX2.

Courtesy of Vanderlande via DHS.

Subscribe to Airports