{"id":173445,"date":"2025-02-07T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/president-trump-hiring-freeze-atc\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T00:00:15","slug":"does-president-trumps-federal-hiring-freeze-include-new-air-traffic-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=173445","title":{"rendered":"Does President Trump&#8217;s Federal Hiring Freeze Include New Air Traffic Controllers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The skies of the United States are seeing widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-atc-shortage-analysis\/\" >air traffic controller shortages<\/a> amidst ballooning travel demand. While all this is taking place, there has been an increase in aircraft near-misses, complaints of congressional dysfunction, and even fatal accidents (such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/thread\/american-airlines-flight-5342-has-crashed-in-washington-dc-live-discussion-thread\/\" >fateful flight<\/a> involving an            <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254833\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/american-airlines\/\"  ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static0.simpleflyingimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/american_airlines_icon.png\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>American Airlines<\/a><\/span>feeder service that the world witnessed last week).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&#8217;s action ordered the FAA to review the performance of individuals in critical safety positions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1832,396,15206,397,13240,7862,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-traffic-control","category-aircraft","category-american-airlines-flight-5342","category-analysis","category-commercial-aviation","category-donald-trump","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173446,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173445\/revisions\/173446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}