{"id":369074,"date":"2026-02-15T03:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/end-of-dei-cockpit-how-faa-enforce-merit-hiring\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T03:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T17:15:08","slug":"the-end-of-dei-in-the-cockpit-how-the-faa-plans-to-enforce-merit-based-hiring-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=369074","title":{"rendered":"The End Of DEI In The Cockpit \u2014 How The FAA Plans To Enforce Merit-Based Hiring Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a new order that all US <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"61160\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>airlines<\/span><\/span> ensure their pilot hiring is conducted on an exclusively merit-based basis. The directive follows an effort by the US Department of Transportation (DOT) to scale back recruitment driven by <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"137213\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/diversity\/\"  >Diversity<\/a><\/span>, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) goals, which it argues have compromised the country&#8217;s gold standard of aviation safety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All carriers are required to prove compliance with merit-based pilot hiring practices.<\/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":[396,476,9661,420,2068,629,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-diversity","category-faa","category-pilot-hiring","category-pilots","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369074","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=369074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369075,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369074\/revisions\/369075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=369074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=369074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=369074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}