U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Verizon worked to install new fiber optic cables that transmit flight data used to manage Newark's airspace.

A pilot with over 60 years' experience told Newsweek that "a good 'A' level traffic controller is a three-dimensional chess player." There's not enough today.

The problems that disrupted flights at New Jersey’s largest airport this spring could be repeated anywhere across the country, so Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is trying to sell Congress on his plan to overhaul the nation’s air traffic control system that will cost “tens of billions.