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.
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The interim rule will cap the number of arrivals and departures at Newark Liberty International Airport at 28 apiece per hour. That’s in line with the limits imposed after about half a dozen controllers went on a 45-day trauma leave following the first outage on April 28.
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.
The airport, which has suffered from staffing shortages and communications breakdowns, faces the first big weekend leading up to summer.