FAA cuts flights in and out of Newark airport
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It’s been a brutal month for Newark Liberty International Airport, as telecommunications and radar outages have plagued one of the nation’s busiest airports, triggering delays and cancellations for thousands of passengers.
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ABC7 New York on MSNTravel through Newark and other local airports down as Memorial Day weekend getaway startsTSA officials are expecting 18 million passengers to fly through the nation's airports this Memorial Day Weekend.But the FAA is starting to cut back on flight operations at Newark Liberty International Airport,
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,
The Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey has been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons this month, and it faced another alarming incident on Monday.
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.
Newsday spoke to experts who said that the direct cause of Newark’s blackout was unique, but the region's other airports like Long Island MacArthur, LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy face some of the same underlying issues — like dated equipment and a long-term shortage of air traffic controllers.