air traffic controllers
03-30-2007 | 11:01 AM
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Both good and bad.
FAA is going to experience a major shortage of controllers and hiring will be at all time record levels. However based on what I hear from controllers that are out there on the job now, there's a reason why the FAA is going to have a shortage.
People are quitting left and right and counting down days to early retirement since the work conditions and BS are getting really bad.
FAA is going to experience a major shortage of controllers and hiring will be at all time record levels. However based on what I hear from controllers that are out there on the job now, there's a reason why the FAA is going to have a shortage.
People are quitting left and right and counting down days to early retirement since the work conditions and BS are getting really bad.
03-30-2007 | 02:03 PM
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I'd agree with that statement. Many facilities are already understaffed and the retirements will just keep coming. I've heard estimates as high as 15,000 in the next 10 years.
04-06-2007 | 07:33 AM
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I have a friend who was called this year for a controller position 10 years after the initial application. Has a start date in OKC (school) this May. So they are hiring. But they did call him up last year, and cancelled him a month before class.
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04-11-2007 | 08:46 AM
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My dad is a controller and has been for over thirty years. Many of the facilities are on mandatory 6 day weeks 10hr days because they are so short. And they can't keep the classes full because of the salary cap. Hopefully that will one day be a thing of the past so we can get good, qualified people in there that will keep me and you seperated.
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