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To be sure, the FAA’s efforts to hire air traffic controllers was already seeing early results

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Sasha Rogelberg.

The Transportation Department is seeking $95.4 million to hire 2,300 controllers in the next year, though the agency is still 3,500 air traffic controllers short of its targeted staffing levels.

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On Roblox, an online gaming platform beloved by Gen Z and Gen Alpha, the site’s 151.5 million daily active users can manage and direct pixelated air traffic through an air traffic control simulator. The U.S. Transportation Department and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) launched a campaign to enlist young people to become air traffic controllers as the aviation sector faces a shortage of the skilled employees. “To reach the next generation of air traffic controllers, we need to adapt,” U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement.

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