Newark airport faces delays amid staffing shortages, adding to challenges from equipment outages and runway construction that ...

Newark Airport faces delays due to FAA Traffic Management Program triggered by staffing shortages, with flights delayed over an hour and a half amid nationwide controller shortages.

The video above originally aired on June 2, 2025. NEWARK, N.J. (PIX11) – Staffing issues again caused delays at Newark ...

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on May 11 morning, Duffy said Newark “100%” needs to scale back its operations, noting: “We have less controllers working the Newark airspace right now.

So the controllers were left unable to see or talk to the planes around Newark Liberty International Airport for as long as 90 seconds on April 28 and May 9. The lines — some of which were old copper ...

It's been a harrowing month for travelers at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, N.J. Radar and communication systems have stopped working on at least three occasions since April 28.

Newark Airport has been operating at a capacity of 56 flights per hour — 28 arrivals and 28 departures — since 4L/22R closed in April. The runway was open for departures on Monday, and Duffy ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.