The FAA has had at least two decades to address the shortage of controllers. Technology is great but they don’t have the ability to increase capacity in their training pipeline. The biggest evidence of this is the new initiative where graduates from a CTI program are skipping the FAA academy and going straight to a facility for training. These facilities, like the academy, don’t have enough staff to increase through put.
Has anyone seen actual data on attrition rates for new hire controllers over the last two decades?