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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by adolph on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @05:30PM (#42939941)
> some ATC employee groups and I can tell you exactly why they are short staffed: > - The FAA has strict hiring requirements.

So what happened? Why did the FAA upend a stable hiring process, undercut the CTI schools it had established to train its workforce, and throw the plans of thousands of eager would-be air traffic controllers into disarray?

https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-fa...

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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by specialist on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:00PM (#42940398)
That was quite the rabbit hole. Thanks for sharing.
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Re:America desperately needs more air traffic controllers by adolph on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @06:09PM (#42940527)
One of the interesting aspects is that organizations with strict hiring requirements have to have deep supply chains in order to meet those requirements. Its always interesting to read an account that describes these otherwise unknown-to-me subcultures.
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