ATC
Air Traffic Controller Drought Calls for New Approach to Training
CAE aims to make the recruitment and training process more efficient
NavCanada Billy Bishop Airport ATC tower
NavCanada is one of the air navigation service providers that face challenges in recruiting and training new air traffic controllers for facilities such as Billy Bishop Airport in Toronto.

Air navigation service providers (ANSPs) around the world still struggle to recruit, train, and retain air traffic controllers as staffing levels still have not recovered from Covid-era layoffs and retirements. In the U.S. alone, the FAA needs to fill about 3,000 vacancies in a situation that appears to mirror the pilot shortage.

Aviation training group CAE offers to remedy the challenge through its new Air Traffic Services (ATS) program, which will launch in October with NavCanada. Between then and the end of 2028, the Montreal-based company expects to prepare more than 500 students in a process beginning with between three and six months of initial training before their assignment to on-the-job training positions at NavCanada facilities around the country.

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