Nav Canada Faces Air Controller Shortage as Travel Season Dawns, but ‘Gap Is Closing’

Nav Canada Faces Air Controller Shortage as Travel Season Dawns, but ‘Gap Is Closing’
Instructor Karina Vasylenko, front, shows media how the air traffic control simulator works at the CAE training facility in Montreal, on Jan. 14, 2025. The Canadian Press/Ryan Remiorz
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Nav Canada’s head of operations says the country continues to face a dearth of air traffic controllers as the busy summer travel season kicks off, but that the organization has put a raft of measures in place to plug the holes.

With more than 2,100 controllers on staff, the non-profit body that runs Canada’s civil air navigation system remains about 200 short of target levels—a figure unchanged from a couple of months ago—said Marie-Pier Berman.