{"id":387730,"date":"2026-03-16T16:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/major-us-airlines-ceos-urge-congress-end-dhs-shutdown\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T16:41:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T06:41:29","slug":"major-us-airlines-ceos-urge-congress-to-end-dhs-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=387730","title":{"rendered":"Major US Airlines CEOs Urge Congress To End DHS Shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major <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> carriers are urging Congress to end the 29-day partial <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/president-trump-thanks-unpaid-tsa-officers-still-working\/\" >government shutdown<\/a>. This has led the Chief Executive Officers of key carriers to write an open letter to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"204737\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/congress\/\"  >Congress<\/a><\/span> in support of the 50,000 <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"51830\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/transportation-security-administration\/\"  >Transportation Security Administration<\/a><\/span> airport security officers who are currently working without a full paycheck for up to a month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the government shutdown drags on, TSA officers are left without pay, leading to a surge in absences and long lines at airports across the US.<\/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":[396,476,18699,783,5825,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-government-shutdown","category-transportation-security-administration","category-tsa-security","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387730","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=387730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387731,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387730\/revisions\/387731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}