{"id":390129,"date":"2026-03-20T19:46:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tsa-absences-bad-airports-shut-down\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:46:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:46:15","slug":"the-country-is-at-stake-tsa-absences-are-so-bad-that-some-airports-could-just-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=390129","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Country Is At Stake\u201d: TSA Absences Are So Bad That Some Airports Could Just Shut Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airlines and airports across the United States of America are continuing to face operational disruption this week. This is because, even with <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/thousands-flights-affected-us-winter-storm-chaos\/\" >the weekend&#8217;s adverse weather<\/a> having now subsided, the country&#8217;s air hubs are having to contend with security staff shortages due to<span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"52095\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/tsa\/\"  >TSA<\/a><\/span> officers being made to work without pay amid the ongoing partial government shutdown. This has prompted a boom in staff not reporting for work this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even at larger hubs, absences are are high as 38%.<\/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":[396,475,240,3333,643,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-north-america","category-security","category-tsa","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390129","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=390129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390130,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390129\/revisions\/390130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}