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Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan

Update for 2025

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to hire and train several thousand air traffic controllers over the next several years. FAA's controller workforce reached 14,264 in fiscal 2024. The FAA hired 1,811 new controllers in fiscal 2024, and has hired more than 5,700 controllers over the last five years. The details are in the nineteenth annual update to the Controller Workforce Plan.

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