We're trying to bring more young people into the academy and through the academy, which, by the way, this year we're already up 20% more than they were in the previous year. So what we're doing is working. I've offered controllers who are at the age of retirement... a bonus to stay on for a year. for a year. I'm doing everything I can. This makes it way harder for me to get new controllers to come in and to keep the controllers that I do have working in the airspace. (18:39–18:50)
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