Newark Airport hit by more chaos
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Moving air traffic controllers means retraining them on the quirks of a new facility, and the process can take years.
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,
Airlines will meet with the Federal Aviation Administration Wednesday to address weeks of delays at Newark Liberty International Airport following air traffic control staffing and equipment issues.
Newark Liberty International Airport is facing another FAA-imposed ground delay due to staffing shortages, after a telecommunications issue led to delays on Sunday.
Newark Airport reportedly experienced another outage Sunday, resulting in a temporary ground stop at the facility. Newark has been besieged with problems over the last few weeks, including multiple air traffic control equipment outages and widespread delays and cancellations of flights.
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A new software update prevented a third radar outage in the last two weeks at New Jersey's busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday.
With summer travel season approaching, the crisis at the New Jersey airport could mean weeks, if not months, of misery for travelers.