The supercharge plan was announced after the DOT secretary took a tour of the FAA Academy at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City. [Credit: Shutterstock}
Key Takeaways:
The FAA is launching an initiative to "supercharge" air traffic controller hiring to address a decade-long staffing shortage.
A hiring window has opened and will remain active until March 17 for prospective controllers.
The hiring process is being streamlined from eight steps to five, which is expected to reduce the time-to-hire by over four months.
The FAA will “supercharge the hiring of air traffic controllers” and “bring more of America’s best and brightest into the aviation safety community,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Thursday.
Following Duffy’s announcement, the agency said its hiring window, which opened Thursday, will remain so until March 17.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
