FAA to hire 2,000 new air traffic controllers amid staff shortages

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy announced on Thursday that 2,000 new air traffic controllers will be hired this year, as the administration works to address a national air traffic controller shortage.

“We have a historic number this year of 2,000 controllers [that] are going to be hired, and we’re going to expand it next year,” Duffy said on Fox Business’s Varney & Co. “But it’s about a four-month academy, but once you graduate from the academy, you have to be trained up in your air space, so we are all hands on deck.”