{"id":242641,"date":"2026-08-13T01:33:01","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/air-traffic-controllers-head-says-hiring-gamers-will-help"},"modified":"2026-08-13T01:33:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:33:01","slug":"air-traffic-controllers-head-says-hiring-gamers-will-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/air-traffic-controllers-head-says-hiring-gamers-will-help","title":{"rendered":"Air traffic controllers head says hiring gamers will help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/air-traffic-controllers-head-says-hiring-gamers-will-help.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, commended the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wednesday for its recent <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/transportation\/6022847-faa-hires-2000-gamers-to-be-air-traffic-controllers\/\">hiring surge<\/a> targeting video game players.<\/p>\n<p>Daniels told NewsNation, The Hill\u2019s sister company, that gaming skills \u201cabsolutely\u201d translate to working as an air traffic controller and called the FAA\u2019s move an \u201cinnovative approach to capture the attention of the American youth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, commended the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Wednesday for its recent hiring surge targeting video game players. Daniels told NewsNation, The Hill\u2019s sister company, that gaming skills \u201cabsolutely\u201d translate to working as an air traffic controller and called the FAA\u2019s move an \u201cinnovative approach to capture [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}