{"id":419185,"date":"2026-05-02T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/us-airlines-government-contracts-budget-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T05:02:22","slug":"federal-dependence-the-us-airlines-most-exposed-to-budget-shifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=419185","title":{"rendered":"Federal Dependence: The US Airlines Most Exposed to Budget Shifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 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>, there are a handful of airlines that focus primarily on US <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/military\/\" >military and government charter work<\/a>. These contracts are a significant revenue stream, and as the world faces the increased cost of living, this may result in different procurement priorities or budget cuts in the near future. Looking at the data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/894081\/000143774925005937\/atsg20241231_10k.htm\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >United States Securities and Exchange Commission<\/a>, Simple Flying decided to understand which airlines may be the most affected if funding streams change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some US airlines, up to 30% of their operations and income come from government contracts, making them vulnerable to budget shifts.<\/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":[396,476,3452,20137,11378,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-419185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-charter-flight","category-government-funding","category-military-transport","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419185","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=419185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419186,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419185\/revisions\/419186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=419185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=419185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=419185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}