FAA cuts 25% of flights at Newark airport
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The Federal Aviation Administration confirmed Monday yet another system outage occurred at the facility handling flights in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport. The agency said the Philadelphia control tower handling the air traffic lost radio frequencies for about two seconds at around 11:35 a.m.
The FAA said that the number of arrivals and departures will be capped at 28 each or 56 flights total every hour
Amid dire conditions at the airport, an airline operations crew has had to figure out how to get more than 600 flights a day to take off and land without incident.