Opinion: New Hiring Path Helps Ready Students Fill ATC Ranks

Student working on tablet by two monitors in air traffic control training

Rachel St. Louis, an Embry-Riddle student who will graduate in December with a bachelor’s degree in air traffic management, training in the university’s ATC Tower Lab.

Credit: Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
The alarm has been sounded: Our nation’s air traffic controllers are stretched thin. Meanwhile, the stakes are as high as ever for controllers, who orchestrate tens of thousands of takeoffs and landings daily and manage up to 5,400 aircraft in the sky at peak operational times. The root of the...
P. Barry Butler

P. Barry Butler is president of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University.

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