Duffy to offer veteran air traffic controllers incentives to stay while system revamped – Washington Examiner
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced plans to offer incentives to veteran air traffic controllers in an effort to retain them during a period of system renovation and new recruit training. Duffy expressed his intention to allow these experienced controllers to remain in their positions beyond the mandatory retirement age of 56, with added bonuses as motivation. He emphasized the importance of retaining these skilled professionals to ensure a smoother transition for new recruits, who require a year to three years of training once they graduate from the air traffic control academy. Duffy aims to improve the air travel system,making it more advanced and alleviating pressure on current controllers. He hopes that the attractive offers will encourage veteran controllers to accept the proposal in the coming days.
Duffy to offer veteran air traffic controllers incentives to stay while system revamped
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Thursday that he will offer veteran air traffic controllers incentives to stay as the air travel system is renovated and new recruits are trained.
“I’m gonna make an offer to air traffic controllers to let them stay longer,” Duffy told Sean Hannity of Fox News. “That’s my authority. I can offer them the chance to stay longer past the mandatory retirement age of 56.”
This offer will give seasoned air traffic controllers a bonus and keep them on the job while new recruits are being trained to take over the seats in the towers, according to Duffy.
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“We can walk and chew gum at the same time,” he said. “We have a plan to get rid of the bottlenecks, get more of the smartest kids into the air traffic control academy.”
“Once they graduate, it takes them a year to three years to get trained up in a tower.”
Retaining veteran controllers will allow time for the government to get these recruits trained up and force the “most technologically advanced” air travel system in the world, according to Duffy.
Duffy described the incentives as a way to “pay them more, give them a bonus, keep them on the job, make the system safer, alleviative the pressure on the controllers.”
“Hopefully, they’ll say yes to that great offer I’m gonna make them in the coming days.”
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