Posted on 08/13/2025 12:01:08 PM PDT by bitt
The Biden administration quietly eliminated the top testing threshold for the highest-performing applicants seeking to become air traffic controllers, an internal slide seen by The Post confirms.
In 2023, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials scrapped the previous “best qualified” tier for candidates who scored 85% or above on the Air Traffic Skills Assessment (ATSA) exam in favor of a “well qualified” threshold for applicants who scored at least 80%.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed the change to The Post’s Miranda Devine on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out now.
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An internal slide shows that the Biden administration approved the ATSA tier change by late 2023. FAA “They lowered the standard from 85% to 80% to be best qualified … to get these young people into the academy,” Duffy said, referring to the FAA training school in Oklahoma City.
“What happened was, they had a substantial washout rate, 30%-plus,” Duffy went on, “because they couldn’t do the work.”
Since the Trump administration took office, Duffy claimed, “we’re getting the best scores in the academy first.”
“In two months after you take the entrance exam, we’re getting you into the academy. And what we’re doing is, if you’re at 98% on that test [or] 94 [%], you are going to take the top slots as slots become available.”
Once air traffic control candidates graduate from the academy, Duffy said, “it takes them, depending on where they’re at, if they’re in a not-so-busy airspace, they can be certified in a year.”
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and these “standards” don’t even count the DEI hiring preferences used by the biden ATC ...
The Democrat Party Motto is “Death to America!”
Hey, DemocRATz traded “best qualified” for “anything goes” years ago.
Hope Biden gets to fly with one of those pilots on his next flight.
Apparently the dumbasses that did the Biden Admin’s dirty work don’t realize that they could be passengers on a plane controlled by an incompetent fellow dumbass DEI hire that could get them killed.
I got a song for you right here ...
Biden administration puppets for Xi Putin Iran................
All want to whack the U.S. for their own use.
I’m confused. So people who score an 80% on the exam are 30% more likely to fail out than someone scoring an 85%? That’s quite a drop for only a couple questions’ difference on the exam!
All depends on the distribution.
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