Newark Liberty International Airport, flight delays
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Staff shortages and equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport have raised safety concerns in recent weeks.
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,
Another radio outage took place for planes at Newark Airport in New Jersey on Monday, adding to a growing list of equipment malfunctions at the busy travel center. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said that Philadelphia TRACON Area C – which has taken over the duties of separating and sequencing aircraft in and out of Newark Airport – experienced a brief radio outage for approximately two seconds around 11:35 a.
A meeting to discuss reducing the number of flights at Newark Liberty International Airport resumed Friday in the wake of critical air traffic control problems around the metro New York hub and other US airports.
The airport, which has suffered from staffing shortages and communications breakdowns, faces the first big weekend leading up to summer.