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Cleared For A Coffee
With this in mind, what’s stopping them recruiting international ATCOs?
Several things comes to mind, Overseas ANSPs are recruiting (hence the flow of ATCs is likely to be the other way). 457 visas are no longer available. International ATCs need to learn the "Australian way" as Australia is far from ICAO compliant and we have some orphaned equipment that no-one else uses. Most foreign recruited ATCs have returned back home at some point. And since this is a rumour network, to work with the new OneSky you need to be an Australian citizen.
I know of 3 ex-ASA ATCs who are International ATCs (in the real sense) who have applied to return and AsA have marked their applications -
UNSUCCESSFUL.
Your application has been assessed ... and unfortunately you have been deemed unsuccessful to progress to the next stage.
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