FAA extends flight limits at 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.”
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New Jersey Transit’s train engineers have reached a tentative deal to end their three-day strike that had halted service for some 100,000 daily riders, including routes to Newark airport and across the Hudson River to New York City.
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.
FAA extends flight limits at Newark airport into June because of controller shortage and tech issues
The Federal Aviation Administration has announced that the flight restrictions that have been in place at New Jersey’s largest airport will remain in place into mid-June
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