Air traffic controllers can increase salary because Trump administrator seeks to enhance employment
Air traffic controllers should receive 30% of the salary as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to increase employment on Thursday.
Sean Duffy Transport Secretary He announced during a press conference at the Academy of Air Transport Controller in Oklahoma on Thursday. He claimed that the salary structure and controllers of technological air traffic were forced to use outdated.
“Currently, students are paid 17.61 USD for an hour. By the way, you may be able to go to Walgreens and do that, aren’t we? So, we’ll run at $ 22.84 an hour,” Duffy said.
“And again, I think they will ensure that people have a salary that can allow them to live while passing through school. But the real incentive is, again, three years outside this academy, and in an average of you are certified $ 160,000 a year. So you can be 24, 23 years old, make a great salary, as air traffic controller. “
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Transport sec. Sean Duffy has announced a significant increase in salary for air traffic controllers at the starting level. (Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Duffy noted that a salary increase plan would require Congress to approve of “billions” in additional means for DOT.
The announcement comes after a series Air travel disasters In recent weeks, although few have been blamed for air traffic control.
Air traffic control tower at Pearson International Airport in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Sunny Day. (East)
Recently, the southwestern aircraft aircraft closely avoided a collision with a Flexjet Business Jet on a runway in Chicago. The southwest plane came to landing while Flexjet, allegedly ignoring the instructions from air traffic control, crossed the landing.
The pilots in the southwestern plane managed to start quickly to avoid the collision.
The flight crew in the southwest performed a maneuvering maneuver to avoid a possible incident with a private jet that crossed the Midway International Airport on Tuesday morning. (Streamtime Live)
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The National Transport Safety Committee says it is still investigating the incident on Tuesday. Trump himself called Flexjet pilots to call them licenses if the investigation exposes injustice.
