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While air traffic controllers welcome an infusion of more than $12 billion to modernize their equipment, some controllers say they are under pressure due to other issues, such as grueling schedules, mandatory overtime and stagnating pay. Glenn Harvey for NPR hide caption toggle caption Glenn Harvey for NPR When a midair collision and a series of radar outages captured attention in …

Former and current U.S. air traffic controllers say Trump administration’s plan to overhaul the nation’s air traffic system does little to fix the bigger problem: a nationwide staffing shortage. AILSA CHANG, HOST: We begin this hour with the country’s air traffic control system. The Trump administration is vowing to rebuild that system in response to recent outages and long-standing staffing …