Contingency plans are being put in place to deal with a shortage of military air traffic controllers, Tánaiste and Minister for Defence Simon Harris has told the Dáil. Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty said ...

A new Dublin Traffic Control Centre opens at the Civic Offices with the intention of addressing traffic problems in the city. The hi-tech centre will control traffic lights at the two hundred most ...

An outage in the UK's air traffic control system caused chaos at airports in the UK and beyond on Wednesday. The fault lasted a mere 20 minutes, but was enough to ground planes across the country, ...

Air traffic control. Stock image Air traffic controllers in tower. Stock image AirNav Ireland, the state-owned company tasked with managing traffic in Ireland’s airspace, said it has initiated a range ...

An expert group urged four years ago for a special payment to be given to military air traffic controllers to dissuade them from leaving the Defence Forces for the private sector. It is understood the ...

A French air traffic control strike is leading to a number of cancellations across Europe and in Ireland. People travelling over French airspace on Monday are being asked to contact their airline for ...

‘Chronic staff shortages are likely to delay one in three flights between June and August,’ says Simon Calder An Aer Lingus plane over Heathrow. Photo: Getty Just like Easter, the official start of ...

We've just had more data from aviation analysts at Cirum. Their last figures - which we reported at 20.47 - showed more than 100 flights had been cancelled. "It's extremely disappointing to see an ATC ...

More than one million people have signed a Ryanair petition demanding that the European Commission protect holidaymakers’ flights during French air traffic control strikes. Ryanair wants the ...

Air traffic controllers have postponed strikes that were set to cause travel chaos this September. The SNCTA union has suspended strike action planned for Thursday 18 September and Friday 19 September ...

Ryanair and easyJet have cancelled hundreds of flights as a French air traffic controllers strike looms. Ryanair, Europe's largest airline by passenger numbers, said it had axed 170 services amid a ...

Over 1 million passengers were affected by French air traffic strikes in early July, as airlines warn of potential for further summer chaos. The boss of easyJet has said that recent French air traffic ...