{"id":377390,"date":"2026-02-28T02:55:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/chief-of-staff-flight-delay-sparks-new-focus-on-airline-industry\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T02:55:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:55:43","slug":"chief-of-staffs-flight-delay-sparks-new-focus-on-airline-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=377390","title":{"rendered":"Chief Of Staff&#8217;s Flight Delay Sparks New Focus On Airline Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Blair, the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/new-era-dulles-why-white-house-wants-redesign\/\" >White House<\/a> Deputy Chief of Staff, is the latest to take a &#8216;new interest&#8217; in the aviation industry following issues experienced on a recent <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\/\"  >American Airlines<\/a><\/span>s flight that he was taking with his wife. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajot.com\/news\/white-house-official-vows-new-interest-in-airline-industry-after-flight-woes\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >As reported by AJOT<\/a>, Blair claims that his AA flight was delayed 2.5 hours after the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/how-are-pilots-trained-to-operate-in-snow\/\" >hydraulic fluid<\/a> was empty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House Deputy Chief of Staff&#8217;s flight delay and forgotten pilot booking spark a new focus on the airline industry.<\/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":[396,476,636,866,3217,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-american-airlines","category-aviation-industry","category-flight-delay","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377390","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=377390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377393,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377390\/revisions\/377393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=377390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=377390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=377390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}