Remember when the FAA told us there was a shortage of Air Traffic Controllers?

Well apparently they're not too shorthanded.

My coworker's wife has been in school for 3 years to become an ATC and when it came time to apply for the job, she was told she was "biographically ineligible" as was everyone in her class. Story is out of Denver (wife in video).


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Thousands of potential FAA air traffic control trainees, with College Initiative Training (CTI) degrees or previous military experience, have been told by the federal agency they are no longer eligible for job interviews. Instead, the FAA has decided to accept less qualified applicants, apparently to satisfy concerns that the agency needs a more diverse workforce.

More than 25 members of Congress have expressed concern with the new hiring process for air traffic controllers rolled out by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) earlier this year. In a letter to the head of the FAA, members of Congress stated "it is apparent to us there is a lack of transparency in the FAA's interim revised hiring process."

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