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Sean Duffy: “It takes a year even for an experienced controller to get…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy Discusses Solutions for Newark Airport Safety and Staffing Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 03:22

What are you going to do about it? Well, so I'm trying to. So just, you know, let me make this point. You can't. It takes a year even for an experienced controller to get trained up in the New York, in the Newark airspace. They don't. You just can't move them around because they have experience as controllers. So, so what I've done is I've offered, I mentioned this earlier, but I've offered to … (03:22–03:29)

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Asserts that training for Newark airspace takes a year for experienced controllers.

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