The Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy regrets Biden Administration for the Newark Airport Infrastructure System System system infrastructure while focusing on plans to fix it. (Credit: Department of Transportation)
Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy Says a key to relieving the lack of air traffic workers is offering retirees to a bonus to prevent them from staying at workers.
In an interview with CBS news, Duffy said to spend time to improve air traffic workers, but an important piece of doing so is the most experienced field controllers.
“I think about what key, we offer a bonus of air traffic controls that are eligible to retire. We don’t retire their salary to stay,” Duffy continued. “As we carry additional air traffic controllers, and keep parents, experienced controls, so we can make the difference.”
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However, Duffy says it takes months, if not years, to solve the lack.
The air traffic control system under the extent of the pressure of the years given to Keeping the Lack of Staffing, The fitted technology and underinvestment of critical infrastructure.
In February, Duffy promised to set the issues with a new package of action “Supertcharge the Air Traffic Controller Workforce.”
His notice arrived at the beginning of The collision of midair Between American Eagle Flight 5342 and an army helicopter on January 29 to leave all passengers and crew of the plane, and the three helicopter staff were dead.
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Secretary Secretary Sean Duffy discusses a news conference at James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at White House in Washington, DC, on Thursday, January 30, 2025. (Tierney L. Cross / Bloomberg by Getty / Getty Images images)
System vulnerabilities get changed evaluations in recent weeks after Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the most shocking air controls.
Early this month, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said the installation of many tower simulation systems across the country to protect air traffic controllers with the air traffic controllers as expenses. These systems allow training controllers for complex airport configurations, advancing scenarios facing the crossing coordination and revising crossing phrasing and reproducing groups of crossing and re-crossing the phrase Crossing and re-crossing groups
The FAA Air Traffic Control Tower at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (Angus Mordan / Bloomberg / Getty Images)
Apart from this other steps Duffy said he took to facilitate field rental. For one, he is trying to expand opportunities for the military veterans, which extends the list of qualified facilities and offer financial incentives to new training miles.
The FAA also plans to reward the Academy graduates to be assigned to hard-to-to-staff facilities and reduce waiting times for top candidates, which in some cases wait for a year and security clearances and security.
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It also expands the number of teachers and establish a learning center of Aciffic Traffic CoSt Concractle Acicatider AC Academy in Oklahoma City. Duffy also fits the lease by changing the old lease process of eight FAA steps to a five-step process.
Administrator and Acting Administrator Chris Rocheleau also issued plans to be implemented immediately to improve new-to-back outage operations.
