Newark Airport has been operating at a capacity of 56 flights per hour — 28 arrivals and 28 departures — since 4L/22R closed in April. The runway was open for departures on Monday, and Duffy ...

The FAA has a nationwide shortage of around 3,000 air traffic controllers, impacting airport efficiency. This understaffing exacerbates delays when issues like bad weather or technical outages occur.

The air traffic control outages at Newark airport fueled weeks of delays. ... N90 was and still is one of the largest TRACON control facilities in the country, with 200 controllers on staff.

Newark Airport experienced another alarming outage on Monday morning. Luiz C. Ribeiro for New York Post Despite the brief outages, all the aircraft “remained safely separated” at the New ...

NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – There was another brief communications outage between air traffic controllers and flights in and out of Newark Airport Monday morning, according to the FAA. Around 11:35 … ...

The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating another radio outage at the troubled air traffic approach control facility responsible for flights approaching and departing Newark Liberty ...

Work is being done to install faster fiber optic cable to the Philadelphia TRACON, but technology will have to be installed to “dumb down” the data feed so as not to overload the vintage ...

A radar feed that transmits data from an FAA facility, then to the Philadelphia TRACON and finally to Newark airport, also failed. The FAA and Washington, D.C.-based National Air Traffic ...

Travelers wait to check into their flights at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J., Monday, May 5, 2025. Seth Wenig / AP Trump administration plans major FAA overhaul ...

“There was a telecommunications issue at Philadelphia TRACON Area C, which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace,” the FAA said in a statement obtained by CNN.

Nearly 80 flights have been cancelled and more than 40 delayed at Newark Liberty International Airport after yet another an equipment outage brought more chaos to the NYC-area hub.