{"682947":{"#nid":"682947","#data":{"type":"news","title":"National Report Urges FAA to Overhaul Air Traffic Controller Hiring and Training","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA\u0026nbsp;new congressionally mandated report coauthored by a Georgia Tech professor\u0026nbsp;suggests that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hires more air traffic controllers each year, optimizes scheduling, and offers other steps to address a nationwide shortage of the critical staffers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKaren Feigh and the 13-person committee found that the FAA hired only about two-thirds of the controllers it projected from 2013 to 2023. Due to attrition during that time \u2014 and because hiring didn\u2019t accelerate until 2024 \u2014 19 of the FAA\u2019s largest facilities have 15% fewer people managing airspace than they need.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor example, the report shows the tower at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world\u2019s busiest, is 17% below full staff.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EThe\u0026nbsp;National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report provides guidance to the FAA about establishing appropriate staffing levels. It also suggests specific improvements in hiring, training, scheduling, and fatigue management for the FAA\u2019s 313 facilities.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/coe.gatech.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/national-report-urges-faa-overhaul-air-traffic-controller-hiring-and-training\u0022\u003ERead a Q\u0026amp;A with Feigh about the report on the College of Engineering website.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Aerospace engineering professor Karen Feigh cowrote a National Academies review of a national shortage that impacts 45,000 daily commercial flights."}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EA\u0026nbsp;new congressionally mandated report coauthored by a Georgia Tech professor\u0026nbsp;suggests that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) hires more air traffic controllers each year, optimizes scheduling, and offers other steps to address a nationwide shortage of the critical staffers.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A new report offers other steps to the Federal Aviation Administration to address a nationwide shortage of the critical staffers. "}],"uid":"27560","created_gmt":"2025-06-30 16:50:03","changed_gmt":"2025-07-01 13:46:01","author":"Jason Maderer","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-06-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677311":{"id":"677311","type":"image","title":"air-traffic-stock.jpg","body":null,"created":"1751302429","gmt_created":"2025-06-30 16:53:49","changed":"1751302429","gmt_changed":"2025-06-30 16:53:49","alt":"an air traffic controller overlooking runways while sitting, at night, in a control tower. ","file":{"fid":"261196","name":"air-traffic-stock.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/06\/30\/air-traffic-stock.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/06\/30\/air-traffic-stock.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":709428,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/06\/30\/air-traffic-stock.jpg?itok=ouDWk_xs"}}},"media_ids":["677311"],"groups":[{"id":"1237","name":"College of Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"136","name":"Aerospace"}],"keywords":[{"id":"187915","name":"go-researchnews"},{"id":"188776","name":"go-research"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[{"id":"71881","name":"Science and Technology"}],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJason Maderer\u003Cbr\u003ECollege of Engineering Communications\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["maderer@gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}