No jobs for Aviation Authority trainees

THE Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) has spent €1.2 million training 22 student air traffic controllers but now has no jobs to offer them.

The students, aged mainly in their 20s, completed their final air traffic control ‘check-outs’ yesterday and instead of celebrating, were told the Authority was not in a position to employ them.

It is the first time in the history of the IAA that it was unable to offer contracts to a class of newly-qualified student controllers.