{"id":407962,"date":"2026-04-18T05:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/faa-opens-atc-hiring-window-6000-applications-7-hours\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T05:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:14:56","slug":"faa-opens-atc-hiring-window-receives-6000-applications-in-7-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=407962","title":{"rendered":"FAA Opens ATC Hiring Window, Receives 6,000 Applications In 7 Hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"257847\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Federal Aviation Administration<\/span><\/span> (FAA) opened its air traffic controller window, and already there have been more than 6,000 candidates in just seven hours. While it is expected that only a small percentage of applicants will fill all the mandatory requirements, it is a positive move to see that there are thousands of Americans who would like a job at one of the country&#8217;s busiest airports or <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"264487\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-traffic-control-tower\/\"  >air traffic control towers<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FAA&#8217;s air traffic controller hiring window opened on Friday, and within seven hours, the agency had received an overwhelming 6,000 applications.<\/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":[1832,3992,396,476,420,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-air-traffic-controller","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-faa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407962","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=407962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407963,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407962\/revisions\/407963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}