The Latest Breaking News from FAA

The FAA has approved SpaceX's request to increase the maximum number of Starship launches from its Starbase site in South Texas per year from five to 25.

The nation’s air traffic controllers union says the flight cancellations plaguing Newark’s Liberty International Airport and spilling over to U.S. airports can be traced to a week ago when controllers temporarily lost contact with planes

One of US’s biggest airports, in New York area, experiences 210 delays and 88 cancellations amid aviation safety fears

United Airlines slashed 35 daily flights from its Newark schedule starting Saturday

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says it is “unacceptable” that two commercial aircraft had to abort landings at a Washington airport this week because of an Army Black Hawk helicopter that was flying to the Pentagon

Angry Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said it was ‘unacceptable’ that the planes had to abort landings, and he said he’s taking it up with Defense Department officials

The recent all-women spaceflight carried out on Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin vehicle has raised discussion of who gets to be called an astronaut. Sean Duffy, Donald Trump’s transportation secretary, disputed the astronaut title given to those on the flight, including singer Katy Perry and journalist Gayle King.

"This was not a mistake"

The Federal Aviation Administration is grounding Firefly Aerospace's Alpha rocket until the company completes an investigation into the vehicle's April 29 launch failure.