"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.
More than 25 members of Congress have expressed concern with the new hiring process for air traffic controllers rolled out by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) earlier this year. In a letter to the head of the FAA, members of Congress stated "it is apparent to us there is a lack of transparency in the FAA's interim revised hiring process."...
With many planes of 300 people flying around, I want the most competent people, not a politically correct backet of applicants.
The FAA has had a very good record for over a decade and the government wants to fix something that isn't broken. How many people will die because they want to use bottom of the barrel hires?
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
