FAA’s Top Air Traffic Control Official to Step Down From Agency

The US Federal Aviation Administration’s top air traffic control official plans to leave the agency as the Trump administration prepares a major overhaul of the unit’s antiquated technology systems.

Tim Arel, chief operating officer of the FAA’s Air Traffic Organization, has accepted a buyout offer extended to personnel at many agencies and plans to depart after a transition period of a few months, the agency said in a statement. Arel joined the FAA as an air traffic controller in 1989 and had planned to retire by the end of the year, the agency said.

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