{"id":69015,"date":"2026-03-15T13:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/airline-ceos-urge-congress-to-end-shutdown-and-pay-airport-tsa-officers\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T13:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T18:55:25","slug":"airline-ceos-urge-congress-to-end-shutdown-and-pay-airport-tsa-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/airline-ceos-urge-congress-to-end-shutdown-and-pay-airport-tsa-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline CEOs urge Congress to end shutdown and pay airport TSA officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly month-long funding lapse has disrupted US air travel and caused long wait times amid security officers\u2019 absences<\/p>\n<p>The CEOs of major US airlines urged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-congress\">Congress<\/a> on Sunday to move quickly to end a 29-day partial government shutdown that has forced 50,000 airport security officers to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/13\/tsa-workers-pay-shutdown\">work without pay<\/a>, warning it could further <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/mar\/02\/flights-cancelled-middle-east-travel-chaos-us-israeli-iran-conflictflights-cancelled-middle-east-travel-chaos-us-israeli-iran-conflict\">disrupt<\/a> US air travel.<\/p>\n<p>Absences by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers had already disrupted travel at some major airports over the previous week, raising alarm as the busy spring break travel season continues.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/15\/congress-shutdown-airport-security-officers-pay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly month-long funding lapse has disrupted US air travel and caused long wait times amid security officers\u2019 absences The CEOs of major US airlines urged Congress on Sunday to move quickly to end a 29-day partial government shutdown that has forced 50,000 airport security officers to work without pay, warning it could further disrupt US &#8230; <a title=\"Airline CEOs urge Congress to end shutdown and pay airport TSA officers\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/airline-ceos-urge-congress-to-end-shutdown-and-pay-airport-tsa-officers\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Airline CEOs urge Congress to end shutdown and pay airport TSA officers\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}