{"id":359955,"date":"2026-02-01T07:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/another-atc-crisis-airlines-pay-government-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T07:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:45:17","slug":"another-atc-crisis-us-airlines-demand-controller-pay-as-government-enters-partial-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=359955","title":{"rendered":"Another ATC Crisis? US Airlines Demand Controller Pay As Government Enters Partial Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A partial shutdown of 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> government began at 12:01 AM Eastern Time on Saturday, after the United States Congress somehow missed a funding deadline, and the airline industry is trying to avoid an air-traffic meltdown. Carriers, primarily via Airlines for America, want legislation that keeps air traffic controllers and Federal Aviation Administration safety staff paid even when appropriations lapse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These controllers work some of the nation&#8217;s hardest jobs.<\/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":[396,2957,5381,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-359955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-atc","category-shutdown","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359955","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=359955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359956,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359955\/revisions\/359956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=359955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=359955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=359955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}