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| FAA changes hiring practices for air traffic controllers ignoring qualified students and vets |
| 2014-06-12 |
| DENVER - Thousands of potential FAA air traffic control trainees, with College Initiative Training (CTI) degrees or previous military experience, have been told by the federal agency they are no longer eligible for job interviews. Instead, the FAA has decided to accept less qualified applicants, apparently to satisfy concerns that the agency needs a more diverse workforce. Flying in and out of FAA "training" airports is about to become lots more fun./sarc |
| Posted by:Uncle Phester |
| #9 Not enough Asian-americans or Hispanics, right? |
| Posted by: KBK 2014-06-12 18:31 |
| #8 Your Just Can't Make This S*it UP. Skin color has more value in the anonymous business of air traffic controlling than skill and experience. What utter BS our government has become. |
| Posted by: NoMoreBS 2014-06-12 15:52 |
| #7 Or people's lives Rambler. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2014-06-12 12:24 |
| #6 To some people, "diversity" is more important than competence. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2014-06-12 10:36 |
| #5 Now everyone will need to speak Jive. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-06-12 09:42 |
| #4 Oh, yes, that's my FAA! Just ask me how many I've flown since working there for the last two decades. |
| Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 2014-06-12 09:21 |
| #3 Speaking of diversity, I wonder what the Republican/Democrat ratio is at all these Agencies. Maybe a little lawfare is in order to balance things out. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2014-06-12 09:07 |
| #2 That'll make an interesting court case. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-06-12 08:42 |
| #1 "All right, Striker, you listen, and listen close. Flying a plane is no different from riding a bicycle; it's just a lot harder to put baseball cards in the spokes." |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-12 06:40 |