Revisiting Retirement Age For Air Traffic Controllers

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FAA’s latest air traffic controller workforce plan outlines the steps the agency is taking to solve the US controller shortage, but the report does not address an issue that has flown under the radar in the debate over staffing air traffic control towers. A 1971 US federal law mandates that...
Aaron Karp

Aaron Karp is a Senior Editor at Air Transport World.

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