Sean Duffy Doesn’t Want Air Traffic Controllers Retiring After 25 Years

Air traffic control staffing at U.S. airports is near a 30-year low, and billionaire oligarch Elon Musk has been doing his best to make sure it stays that way with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency. But Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has an idea to fix it. Duffy thinks air traffic controllers shouldn’t retire at 56 as they’re now required to do for safety and national security reasons. In fact, Duffy seems to think allowing air traffic controllers to work into old age would actually help safety and national security, if you can believe it. “We have too many controllers that retire after 25 years of service. And so we have to look and go, is this a national security issue? Is this a safety issue? And should these air traffic controllers be retiring after 25 years of service?” Duffy said on Wednesday on Fox Business. Duffy on the shortage of air traffic controllers: “We have too many controllers that retire after 25 years of service. And so we have to look and go, ... Read full article.