Is there a pilot shortage? The FAA counted 887,519 US pilots in 2025. What airlines run short of is captains, and federal rules make them slow to build.
US airlines that disappeared after 9/11: five of the 10 biggest in 2001 are gone, four absorbed by American, United and Delta after each went bankrupt.
The NATS air traffic control failure cancelled over 1,750 UK flights. It was the third national outage since 2023, and regulators had just closed the last fix.
Amazon Prime Air owns and paints its 767 freighters but holds no air carrier certificate. Contracted airlines fly every one of them. Here is how that works.
Aircraft mechanic salary data puts the median at $79,870, roughly a third of an airline pilot’s pay, for the person who legally signs off the aircraft.
Air traffic controller salary runs from $22.61 an hour at the FAA Academy to $175,785 in base pay at the busiest facilities. Here is how the money works.
