> some ATC employee groups and I can tell you exactly why they are short staffed: > - The FAA has strict hiring requirements.

So what happened? Why did the FAA upend a stable hiring process, undercut the CTI schools it had established to train its workforce, and throw the plans of thousands of eager would-be air traffic controllers into disarray?

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