{"id":148902,"date":"2024-03-11T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/?p=148902"},"modified":"2024-03-11T20:08:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T20:08:41","slug":"u-s-wants-to-hire-2000-air-traffic-controllers-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviacionaldia.com\/en\/2024\/03\/u-s-wants-to-hire-2000-air-traffic-controllers-in-2025.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. wants to hire 2,000 air traffic controllers in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Biden administration said Monday it is seeking funding from Congress to hire another 2,000 air traffic controllers in the 2025 budget year after a series of near-miss incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A persistent shortage of controllers has delayed flights and, at many facilities, controllers are working mandatory overtime and six-day weeks to cover staffing shortages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) wants $43 million to accelerate the hiring and training of controllers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We need more air traffic controllers and we’re hiring as many as we can,” FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Staffing issues forced the FAA to extend cuts to minimum flight requirements at congested New York City-area airports through October 2024 – allowing airlines to fly fewer flights without forfeiting take-off and landing slots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The budget proposes spending $8 billion over the next five years – beginning with $1 billion in 2025 – to replace or modernize more than 20 aging air traffic control facilities and 377 critical radar systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An independent report in November listed FAA air traffic control facilities with leaking roofs, broken heating and air conditioning systems, and old surveillance radar systems that must soon be replaced at a cost of billions of dollars. It called for “urgent action” to bolster the FAA after a series of close calls involving passenger jets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FAA has about 10,700 certified controllers, up slightly from 10,578 in 2022, but down 10% since 2012 and about 3,000 below target.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Transportation Department said in August it had hired 1,500 controllers for the 2023 budget year. Whitaker said Monday it expects to exceed its 2024 goal of hiring 1,800.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A USDOT inspector general’s report in June found critical air traffic facilities facing significant staffing shortages, and posing risks to air traffic operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whitaker said FAA facilities are “really old” and 21 centers are already 10 years past their expected 50-year service life, “so this work has to be done.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With information from Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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