{"id":121439,"date":"2025-06-02T06:52:30","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:52:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/02\/legal-turbulence-hits-airline-flight-schools-including-one-launched-by-trumps-pick-to-lead-faa\/"},"modified":"2025-06-02T06:52:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T14:52:30","slug":"legal-turbulence-hits-airline-flight-schools-including-one-launched-by-trumps-pick-to-lead-faa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/06\/02\/legal-turbulence-hits-airline-flight-schools-including-one-launched-by-trumps-pick-to-lead-faa\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Turbulence Hits Airline Flight Schools, Including One Launched by Trump’s Pick to Lead FAA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Academies run by United Airlines and Republic Airways say students can obtain their commercial pilot certificates in as little as a year. But some former students allege in lawsuits that they did not receive the in-class instruction or in-plane training to make that possible\u2014even though tuition approached or exceeded $100,000.<\/p>\n

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Academies run by United Airlines and Republic Airways say students can obtain their commercial pilot certificates in as little as a year. But some former students allege in lawsuits that they did not receive the in-class instruction or in-plane training to make that possible\u2014even though tuition approached or exceeded $100,000.<\/p>\n

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Academies run by United Airlines and Republic Airways say students can obtain their commercial pilot certificates in as little as a year. But some former students allege in lawsuits that they did not receive the in-class instruction or in-plane training to make that possible\u2014even though tuition approached or exceeded $100,000. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Academies run by United […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":121440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/legal-news-aVNrA6.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}