Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy held a press conference Thursday to outline the agency’s plans to boost air traffic controller hiring at the Federal Aviation Administration.
He acknowledged that across the airspace, the FAA is short about 3,000 air traffic controllers, but said the DOT has a roadmap to boost hiring over the next few years, and insisted that air travel remains safe in the meantime.
“We’re hoping in 3-4 years we can get to full staffing, not 20 years,” he said. “How do you make up the gap? We can’t snap our fingers to make up the numbers.”…