The president mentioned that yesterday in the Cabinet meeting. But this is the other piece. This is the human resource side of air traffic control. And so We're about 3,000 air traffic controllers short. It's been that way for about a decade. And so what we're doing is we're bringing more people into the academy where we train air traffic controllers, bringing in better people, which means the washout rate is going to be lower. (02:21–02:27)
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Asserts that there is a shortage of 3,000 air traffic controllers, persisting for about ten years.
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