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Sean Duffy: “The problem we're seeing with controllers, it can't be fixed…”

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

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Sean Duffy Discusses Air Traffic Controller Shortage at Philly TRACON

Published | Video Starts at 01:06

And so on a rolling basis, over the next year, we're going to have more controllers come online into the Philly tracon. In addition, we just brought in another six trainees into the Philly TRACON to also train up. So The problem we're seeing with controllers, it can't be fixed overnight. It takes time to train up on this airspace. But we've addressed the problem by bringing more controllers to train up in the, in the Philly TRACON that again, controls Newark here. (01:06–01:13)

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Asserts that resolving the controller shortage is a time-consuming process due to training requirements.

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