FAA cuts flights in and out of Newark airport
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Newark airport is under fire. New Jersey Transit is on strike. And those are only the recent transit woes to hit the Garden State.
US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered a reduction of traffic at the airport for the “next several weeks,” insisting that it’s safe to fly out of New Jersey’s busiest airport, despite it using an “old” system, which he previously described as being run on “copper wire and floppy disks.”
Trains are idle, the airport is hobbled and large holes have opened on a major highway. The state’s residents have time to reflect, and get mad.
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.
Nearly 5.5 million travelers are expected to use the Port of Authority of New York & New Jersey’s airports and vehicular crossings during the
Air traffic controllers handling flights for Newark Liberty International Airport experienced another troubling communications outage on Monday. It is the region's fourth reported air traffic control outage in the last few weeks,
Newark Airport travelers have been warned of potential measles exposure after a case was confirmed in a recent passenger. NJDOH releases a statement urging vaccination.
A veteran New Jersey air traffic controller has revealed he was forced to scribble handwritten flight details in a notebook amid fears his radar equipment would go dark as he was trying to avoid a recent nose-to-nose midair collision.