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.

No jobs for Aviation Authority trainees

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.

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