The agency took this step to ease its staffing shortage. It now looks beyond traditional career paths. The FAA made video gamers a key focus of its latest recruitment drive. That effort has already ...

The agency says recruiting gamers helped it hit 94 percent of its hiring target so far this year.

Air Traffic Control talent shortages prompt the FAA to turn to gamers, who bring relevant skills to the role. Image: ChatGPT The FAA is targeting gamers in its air traffic controller recruitment push, ...

The federal government says it has hired more than 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers, the payoff from a ...

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says the FAA hired more than 2,000 air traffic controllers after a recruitment push aimed in part at video gamers.

FAA gaming recruitment campaign drew 10,779 qualified applicants in hours, targeting cognitive skills gamers build with salaries topping $155,000.

For more than a decade there has been a shortage of air traffic controllers in the U.S., which has resulted in flight delays and increased risks for air travelers. And the Department of Transportation ...

Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, commended the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wednesday for its recent hiring surge targeting video game players.

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