{"id":403575,"date":"2026-04-11T14:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-gamers-air-traffic-controller-shortfall\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T14:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:13:10","slug":"its-not-a-game-faa-targets-gamers-as-us-faces-3500-air-traffic-controller-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=403575","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not A Game: FAA Targets Gamers As US Faces 3,500 Air Traffic Controller Shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink-article\" data-id=\"2039411\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/senate-confirms-sean-duffy-usdot-head\/\" >Sean Duffy<\/a><\/span>, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, has today announced that the latest <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"262008\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-traffic-controllers\/\"  >air traffic controller<\/a><\/span> hiring window will open at midnight on Friday, April 17. Only a small percentage of applicants make it all the way through to the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-crippling-shortage-risk-flight-delays-safety\/\" >FAA Academy<\/a> and eventually into a career as an air traffic controller.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the US faces a 3,500 air traffic controller shortfall, the FAA is making a bold move by targeting gamers for recruitment. Will you answer the call?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,6421,396,476,2957,420,423,1777],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-air-traffic-control-tower","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-atc","category-faa","category-united-states","category-us-department-of-transportation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403579,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403575\/revisions\/403579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}