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Facing a decadeslong shortage, the FAA has now hired more than 2,000 air traffic controllers through its campaign recruiting Gen Z video gamers

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Facing a decadeslong shortage, the FAA has now hired more than 2,000 air traffic controllers through its campaign recruiting Gen Z video gamers
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On Roblox, an online gaming platform beloved by Gen Z and Gen Alpha, the site’s 151.5 million daily active users can manage and direct pixelated air traffic through an air traffic control simulator. That’s a coincidence. What isn’t is that the federal government is recruiting this very demographic to monitor airspace in real life as it seeks to plug a decadeslong shortage in key airport staffing.



U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced in an X post this week that the ad

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