US offers incentives to increase air traffic settings and storage

The US transport department said on Thursday that measures had to take to keep and recruit more air traffic controls in order to tackle a significant lack of personnel.

The Federal Aviation Administration, which said in March, offer 2,000 trainees this year, they will be retired, which under the obligatory retirement age of 56 a flat rate of 20% of their basic wage for each year in which they continue to offer a flat -rate payment of 20% of their basic wage.

The transport secretary Sean Duffy said on Thursday that he requested that his plan to reveal his plan next week to ask the Congress by billions of dollars to reform the crumbling infrastructure of the country’s air traffic control.

A US house committee approved 12.5 billion US dollars as a “down payment” on Wednesday to 2029 to address problems.

Duffy, who previously said he would ask for “ten billion” in the financing, quoted a number of recent issues on Thursday, including serious delays in Newark due to equipment errors and personnel problems.

“You start seeing cracks in the system and you can see them in different places,” said Duffy. “It is our job – we all work together – so as not to wait until there is a disaster.”

Calls to modernize the nation’s flight control system increased after a collision with medium air on January 29th between a helicopter of the US Army and one American airlines Airplane and other serious safety incidents, including an almost flour with one delta Airplane and several military jets.

The FAA also plans to take steps to improve the storage of new trainees and offer graduates and new employees financial incentives to complete initial milestones, including 5,000 US dollars for the graduates of the academy who complete the first qualification training.

A persistent lack of controllers delayed the flights and many work mandatory overtime and six days. The FAA consists of around 3,500 air traffic controllers who have no targeted number of personnel. Duffy hopes to tackle this deficiency within three to four years.

Duffy said the dropout rate for controller trainees is about 35%. You will also give bonuses for hard locations for the employees.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that IBM Or Raytheon could receive a contract to modernize air traffic control.