{"id":320406,"date":"2025-11-21T13:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/nearly-800-atc-10000-dollars-bonus-not-calling-out-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T13:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T03:38:57","slug":"nearly-800-air-traffic-controllers-to-receive-10000-for-not-calling-out-during-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=320406","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 800 Air Traffic Controllers To Receive $10,000 For Not Calling Out During Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-much-atc-really-make\/\" >Air traffic controllers<\/a> and technicians with perfect attendance during the government shutdown will enjoy a $10,000 bonus. It is estimated that around 20,000 ATCs will miss out on this payout, with just 776 controllers or technicians eligible, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/government-shutdown-faa-air-traffic-controllers-371e333904b6726d69c4dad731196e82#\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >as reported by the Associated Press<\/a>. This comes off the back of widespread disruption to air travel in the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128663\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/united-states\/\"  >United States<\/a><\/span>, with many employees calling in sick or refusing overtime as they were expected to work unpaid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst widespread disruption, a select few air traffic controllers are set to receive a hefty bonus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"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":[18744,1832,396,476,18699,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2025-us-government-shutdown","category-air-traffic-control","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-government-shutdown","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320406","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=320406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320407,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320406\/revisions\/320407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}