Newark Liberty International Airport, FAA
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Staff shortages and equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport have raised safety concerns in recent weeks.
The FAA is holding a “delay reduction” meeting Wednesday, seeking to cap the total number of flights at the airport.
Travel woes at Newark Airport continued Monday after a weekend featuring another radar outage, a ground stop and dozens of flight cancellations and delays. The FAA announced Newark was operating on a ground delay program,
The Biden administration is to blame for the ongoing air traffic control failures at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport, and throughout the system, Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday.
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Moving air traffic controllers means retraining them on the quirks of a new facility, and the process can take years.
Newark Liberty International Airport is facing another FAA-imposed ground delay due to staffing shortages, after a telecommunications issue led to delays on Sunday.
One runway is closed and there's a shortage of air-traffic controllers, causing flights to be delayed or canceled.
The move is in response to equipment failures and staff shortages that caused hourslong flight delays in recent weeks.
The shortage on Monday forced the F.A.A. to delay flights to the busy airport for up to nearly seven hours, the latest problem to plague the airport.