Typical Biden stupidity.  The Biden administration quietly eliminated the top testing threshold for the highest-performing applicants seeking to become air traffic controllers, an internal slide seen by The Post confirms.

     In 2023, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials scrapped the previous “best qualified” tier for candidates who scored 85% or above on the Air Traffic Skills Assessment (ATSA) exam in favor of a “well qualified” threshold for applicants who scored at least 80%.  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy revealed the change to The Post’s Miranda Devine on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out now.  FAA “They lowered the standard from 85% to 80% to be best qualified … to get these young people into the academy,” Duffy said, referring to the FAA training school in Oklahoma City.

     Since the Trump administration took office, Duffy claimed, “we’re getting the best scores in the academy first.” “In two months after you take the entrance exam, we’re getting you into the academy. And what we’re doing is, if you’re at 98% on that test [or] 94 [%], you are going to take the top slots as slots become available.”  Once air traffic control candidates graduate from the academy, Duffy said, “it takes them, depending on where they’re at, if they’re in a not-so-busy airspace, they can be certified in a year. 

     Under Duffy’s watch, the FAA has instituted a revised version of the prior ATSA grading system   Applicants are now separated into four tiers: “Best-qualified” for scores of 90% or more, “well-qualified” for scores between 85% and 89%, “qualified” for scores between 70% and 84%, and “not referred” for scores under 70%.