{"id":323903,"date":"2025-11-27T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/western-global-airlines-furloughs-pilots-extended-md-11-grounding\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T11:09:13","slug":"western-global-airlines-furloughs-pilots-due-to-extended-md-11-grounding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=323903","title":{"rendered":"Western Global Airlines Furloughs Pilots Due To Extended MD-11 Grounding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cargo carrier Western Global Airlines (WGA) has reportedly furloughed pilots due to the extended grounding of its <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525616\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mcdonnell-douglas-md-11\/\"  >McDonnell Douglas MD-11<\/a><\/span> fleet. The news follows the UPS Airlines MD-11 accident on November 4, 2025, which resulted in the FAA grounding the aircraft type. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier informed its pilots about the decision via email.<\/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":[396,13912,476,420,9103,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-aircraft-grounding","category-airlines","category-faa","category-mcdonnell-douglas-md-11","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323903","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=323903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323979,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323903\/revisions\/323979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}