The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a a four-hour ground delay for outgoing flights due to staffing shortages. Incoming flights were also experiencing delays as officials limited the number of arrivals to 24 every hour.

The air traffic controller at Reagan National Airport spoke rapidly, directing the nightly choreography of planes with clipped instructions. “No delay,” he told the pilots of a jetliner preparing to rev its engines for takeoff. Another plane was ...

WASHINGTON – The Federal Aviation Administration said on Oct. 2 that it was modifying helicopter routes at two international airports near Washington, D.C., months after an American Airlines jet collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near the capital.

Almost two years before the fatal midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), an internal FAA memo advised air traffic control leadership that DCA’s arrival rate was too high, urging a reduction “to maintain a safe and ...