1,800 for a workforce of 14,000? Is the turn-over rate that high or is this just a special case?
It is a very high pressure job.
I know a couple that work here in Nashua at the FAA center.
They are older guys.
They went through training in the USAF.
I also know a guy who is at Miami International. He also did two years in the USAF. One year in Baghdad during the war.
The Nashua Community College just started a program for FAA ATC with a two year degree. Probably with on the job internship at the FAA center here in Nashua. FYI, it controls all the flights coming from Europe and everything east Cleveland.
From what I understand, as we were getting over Covid and people started traveling by air more & more, there was a severe shortage of flight controllers. Many of the older and more experienced people may have decided to retire during Covid & others may have found less stressful work & never came back.