said Airlines for America<\/a>, a trade association for major US passenger and cargo airlines including Delta, Southwest, UPS and FedEx.\n <\/p>\n\n \u201cHaving a fully functioning government is vital to ensuring that our nation\u2019s airspace is safe, reliable and open, especially at this time of record air travel and increased reliance on cargo shipments,\u201d Airlines for America said.\n <\/p>\n
\n The resolution \u201crestores stability to the people and systems that keep travel moving \u2014 but it must also drive long-term change,\u201d said Geoff Freeman, the president and CEO of the US Travel Association, a national nonprofit organization representing the travel industry nationwide.\n <\/p>\n
\n The statement urges Congress to \u201cinvest in the modern infrastructure, technology and workforce needed to keep America moving forward.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Delta Airlines said it was \u201cextremely grateful\u201d to the federal employees who worked to \u201ckeep our skies safe and secure\u201d without a paycheck.\n <\/p>\n
\n \u201cWe look forward to bringing our operation back to full capacity over the next few days and delivering the premium experience our customers expect as we look ahead to the holiday season.\u201d\n <\/p>\n
\n Delta Airlines\n <\/p>\n
\n Similarly, American Airlines said a reopened government means \u201cour hardworking government aviation safety and security professionals will be paid, and the flying public will have deserved travel predictability.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"National airline and travel associations and major airlines including Delta and American Airlines are thanking the House for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-279690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}