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Pete Buttigieg: “Under my successor, the pace of hiring air traffic…”

Featuring: Pete Buttigieg, Democratic | Former Secretary of Transportation, Former Mayor of South Bend | National

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… the one thing I think most of us agree on is that there's a shortage around air traffic control. Maybe it's because they've been struggling to hire. I noticed that Under my successor, the pace of hiring air traffic controllers slowed down dramatically to less than a dozen net new certified professional controllers. compared to what we were doing on my watch. Maybe it's got something to do with that, I don't know. (10:08–10:17)

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