You need a college degree only to be qualified, but you are only put into groups 2 or 4. Veterans and people who do to college for atc or aviation safety go to groups 1 or 3. That’s just to then do the minimum 6months of atc training. They also just started direct hiring from colleges with approved programs.

The work is difficult, and the expectations and stress are high. They 100% need to pay better, but the pool of qualified candidates is already fairly small.

No

It would be in America as well, except ATC is classified as a secure role like the military or police so they get away with stuff like this.

There has been a shortage for a decade, and the post is literally Musk trying to hire early retirees to fill staffing shortages.

South Park also got extremely close to airing the uncensored mohammed multiple times, and the uncensored versions were “leaked” onto youtube a while ago.