Air traffic controllers are an integral part of the National Airspace System (NAS). The work they do, every day of the year, is essential to the mission of the Federal Aviation Administration, providing the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world. The FAA employs more than 14,000 air traffic controllers. They work in air traffic facilities of all sizes, safely guiding about 50,000 aircraft through the system each day. These employees provide air navigation services to aircraft in the U.S. domestic airspace, and in the 24.6 million square miles of international oceanic airspace delegated to the United States by the International Civil Aviation Organization. Over the next decade, approximately 72 percent of this workforce will become eligible to retire. In order to meet the challenges of this wave of retirements and the increasing demand for air travel, the FAA will hire and train more than 15,000 new air traffic controllers over the next 10 years. The plan for fi scal year 2007 includes hiring more than 1,300 new controllers from the thousands of qualified applicants waiting to be hired.


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    Title :

    Plan for the Future 2007-2016: The Federal Aviation Administration's 10-Year Strategy for the Air Traffic Control Workforce


    Publication date :

    2007


    Size :

    64 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English