FAA cuts flights in and out of Newark airport
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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,
Staff shortages and equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport have raised safety concerns in recent weeks.
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.