The decades-long shortage of air traffic controllers in the U.S. won’t be solved anytime soon, even with a hiring blitz.

Feb. 27 (UPI) --The Trump administration announced an air traffic control "hiring supercharge" at the FAA's academy, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced. Hiring started Thursday.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced plans to "supercharge" hiring efforts for air traffic controllers after a ...

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 ...

Duffy announced an approximately 30% raise in pay for controllers in training at the FAA Academy. This will "boost the trainees' pay to $22.84 an hour, from $17.61," said The New York Times ...

Trainees are to be schooled at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. On graduation, they will be assigned to an air control tower at one of the nation's airports. Black market pot regularly contains ...

Robust training is required to become an air traffic controller, including the completion of training courses at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. According to the FAA, air traffic control ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy took a tour of the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) Academy at the Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center. During his time in Oklahoma City, Duffy met with ...

would increase starting salaries by 30 percent for candidates who go to the FAA Academy for air traffic controller positions and reduce the current eight-step hiring process to a five-step process ...

Trainees are to be schooled at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City. On graduation, they will be assigned to an air control tower at one of the nation's airports.

That’s just about the number that would have just come out of the FAA Academy … so this has been a festering problem.” Pearson noted there would have to be a structural change within the FAA ...