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Despite exceeding its hiring goals for the 2024 fiscal year, the Federal Aviation Administration is still dealing with an air-traffic controller shortage that airline executives are expecting will last for years.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced Monday that it exceeded its air-traffic controller hiring goal for the fiscal year, marking the largest number of new hires in nearly a decade as it deals with a persistent shortage.
The agency had a goal of hiring 1,800 air-traffic controllers in the 2024 fiscal year and ended up hiring a total of 1,811.
With this year’s latest set of hires, the FAA now has around 3,400 air-traffic controllers i