[MeganC]

Translation: Obama wants to hire HIS people and not military veterans or people who paid their own way through flight school.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Damn, then we need Billy Gates, Markie Zuckerberg et al to demand more Indian-accented candidates on H 1 B visas

[PGR88]

“Off the street”. Sounds like a code to describe certain Obama- favored practices

[wrench]

Not using former military controllers should be a crime. They are the best at what they do, FAA types without mil experience are a distant second, in my experience.

[grundle]

This is Obama's fault. He thinks diversity is more important than competence.

FAA changes hiring practices for air traffic controllers ignoring qualified students and vets:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3372195/posts

[LibertarianLiz]

When I worked for United Airlines, I got a chance to take a tour of the Air Traffic Control Tower at O’Hare. It was fascinating; but, it is a highly stressful job. The guys in the basement looking at blips on the screen are the ones who have the most stress; as, they are the ones keeping the planes from running into each other. The guys in the tower put the planes on the correct runways. And, at the time I took the tour, there was no where near the amount of traffic as there is now.

[TYVets]

They have recently been hiring more of them off the street, instead of candidates with military or college aviation training.

That warning label should be in large print on every airline advertisement, even radio.

[W.]

Now we see where 0dungo will stick some of his imported scuzmuz buddies...

J/K, hopefully!

[redgolum]

It is not. My cousin my marriage just finished the ATC school in North Dakota. The FTC won’t hire him because he isn’t the right protected class (he is a few).

Just like all the STEM “shortages” you used to read about, it is total BS.