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    Nach dem LaGuardia-Absturz gibt Nav Canada an, dass dem Land 200 Fluglotsen fehlen


    Nach dem LaGuardia-Absturz gibt Nav Canada an, dass dem Land 200 Fluglotsen fehlen

    https://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/article/in-wake-of-laguardia-crash-nav-canada-says-country-is-short-200-air-traffic-controllers/

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    2. Altselbutton on

      Canadian airline pilot here. Combining positions not only happening in the US but is also common here at home in many airports across Canada (YYZ and YVR) especially.

      Late at night when coming in to land in YYZ you can hear the tower controller giving out route clearances to other aircraft on the ground.

    3. lorenavedon on

      Why were we able to afford to employ so many service workers in the 80s and 90s that were paid well and provided good customer service,, yet in 2026 this seems impossible? We’re at the point where I can’t even imagine a future where this gets better.

    4. hows_it_goes on

      Why is there a shortage?

      – Retirements?
      – Lack of training spaces kind of like residencies in medical schools?
      – Not enough qualified applicants?

    5. AshleyAshes1984 on

      If only NavCanada operated some kind of ‚Training Institute‘ where it was able collect everything needed to train new controllers and have entire dedicated staff to such training programs. It could be complete with dining services, dormitories, even an olympic sized swimming pool and a sick scale model of the property in the lobby.

      Oh well, surely that’s impossible, who wants to sell off more government properties to be convention centers!? 😀

    7. Wonderful-Tip1360 on

      This crash was so preventable.. my heat goes out to the pilots that lost there lives. I can’t believe traffic control messed up so bad.

    8. EdmontonBest on

      **Then do something about it!**

      Who else is in charge of this issue? Who? You are!!!

    9. Phelixandco on

      I’m surprised more people don’t go into the career. But from speaking with the controllers, It was a lack of interest. It’s a long time to train and there is no guarantee you’re fit for the job. It’s also not BAD pay to start! You also don’t always get to pick where you get placed if you do get hired on.

      The process to become a controller I think is really streamlined. About 3 years ago I went through the process, got interviewed, got the second interview, did an entire day of aptitude testing and got accepted. All within a month or so. I never went further because it was a big pay cut and the job I was in decided to pay me more. I still think about what could’ve been as by now I’d be making 2x what I make now.

    10. Severe_Air_4353 on

      Traffic control knew it was a Canadian plane , just look how ice treat Canadians . All when trump told , ordered ice to control airports on day of crash . Americans will try for Canada one plane at a time .

    11. theoreoman on

      They have a slow hiring and training pipeline. It just takes a really long time to get someone 100% ready

    12. Blue_ech0 on

      Waaayyyy back in ’93 I made it through the interview process and training to become ATC. If I remember correctly, there were (at that time) many thousands applying, but the initial exam washed out something like >80%, and the following interview depleted that number even more.

      There were classes starting every 6 weeks with 24 students per class. I was one of 4 candidates for western Canada in my class. Loss rates during classroom training exceed 50% with a further 50% loss in field training. Yes, if 4 get chosen for training, they might get 1 in the end. .. and that’s for all ATC positions – tower and center controllers.

      The stress caught up to me in field training (Edmonton Center – north boards), and I washed out.

      Total time start to washout was over a year. I don’t want to see the competency dropped just to fill seats, but people need to know how long it takes to train and the stress the controllers deal with. I was borderline alcoholic when I left. I believe the job would have killed me had I survived the training.

    13. No-Journalist-9036 on

      A single controller working two positions is absolutely terrifying, but it’s exactly what you’d expect from a country that is structurally falling apart. Understaffing critical aviation infrastructure is basically just the Nav Canada equivalent of our normalized 28-week-long hallway healthcare.

      We are running our essential services on fumes because we are in a broader, textbook systemic decline. Look at the macroeconomic reality we are operating in:
      -The OECD literally projects Canada to be the worst-performing advanced economy for the next 40 years.
      -We are sitting on double-digit youth unemployment and the 2nd highest adult unemployment in the G7, yet we somehow can’t fund or fill critical, high-skill roles like ATC.
      -Our dollar is continuously weakening (the USD is now 37% stronger than CAD), and to backstop it, we are the only G7 nation holding exactly *zero* gold reserves.

      We can’t keep the hospitals staffed, we can’t keep the streets clean, and we apparently can’t even afford enough controllers to keep the planes separated without making one person do two jobs.

    14. PissJugRay on

      It’s going to get worse before it gets any better for us.
      Source- I’m a controller

    15. eneva92504 on

      Sometimes I feel like this would be an exciting job to have, but then I immediately doubt I’d ever be capable of doing it, as I remember how panicked I get playing the cartoonish Air Control game I have on my tablet…lol.

      I just don’t think I’m well suited for anything where human lives are on the line.

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