Controller scheduling and staffing shortages have led to trouble at AUS
but at airports around the country, due to a nationwide air traffic controller staffing backlog leftover from the pandemic. People may be looking to City Council, which controls thethat runs the airport, to do something – it is one of the fastest-growing airports in the nation, with its flight volume having increased 30% from pre-pandemic levels, and an 8% increase in departing flights since just last October.
In Europe, the Schipol Airport in Amsterdam has implemented a controversial policy of"slot control," capping flights as a noise reduction strategy, much to airlines' chagrin. However, this policy has very little precedent in the very capitalist United States and can be easily manipulated –antitrust investigation for monopolizing slot control at the Newark Airport.
Still, though the FAA has awarded $10 million in grants to fund aviation classes at high schools this year and plans to hire thousands more controllers next year, issues with scheduling have yet to be solved. A 2018 Department of Transportation investigation found thatwas leading to staffing issues and increased overtime costs and that the FAA was"years away from a standardized controller scheduling tool.
The median annual wage for air traffic controllers was $132,250 in 2022, per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The application process can take six months or longer, and training requires a few months in Oklahoma City. Learn more about a career in air traffic control athas been Austin’s independent news source for over 40 years, expressing the community’s political and environmental concerns and supporting its active cultural scene.
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