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Posted on 05/11/2025 8:31:20 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
Nearly 80 flights have been cancelled and more than 40 delayed at Newark Liberty International Airport after yet another an equipment outage brought more chaos to the NYC-area hub.
A 45-minute ground stop was ordered on Sunday morning by the FAA following the outage at Newark’s air traffic control facility, officials told WABC.
It comes after a radar malfunction on Friday morning brought Newark to a standstill briefly on Friday morning.
The number of flights in and out of the airport will be reduced for the “next several weeks,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” following travel chaos triggered by a shortage of air traffic controllers.
“We want to have a number of flights that if you book your flight, you know it’s going to fly, right?” he said.
A meeting with all airlines flying out of Newark Liberty International is expected to be called this week to determine the reduction, Duffy added.
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DEI needs to just D-I-E!
And the few times I had to go to Princeton, NJ turned into the rental car agents suggesting which routes to take and which exits to avoid. At least I didn't need a passport, but the whole thing felt like going into a foreign country.
I had just the opposite experience, I quit traveling to the NYC area around 2018,
There was nothing positive I could say about Newark.
It seemed like something was down or broken every time I went there, usually 5-6 times per year.
One time on a hot day in late April, the A/C was down in the entire airport, it was like an oven, a number of people fainted.
Another time the escalators were down, everyone had to drag the luggage upstairs.
The monorail to the car rental agencies was down making people walk there in the snow the one time it happened to me.
Don’t get me started on the roads around Newark, they are a spaghetti junction only a drunk person could have designed.
I have lots of 8” and 5 and a quarter floppy discs they can have. There’s still room on them.
I used to fly into that airport every quarter for about four years. Thank you Jesus for getting me in and out of there.
Today:
“’Runway equipment issue’ causing delays at Atlanta airport, ground stop extended for departures from several regions of US”
“A ground stop for flights into Atlanta from much of the country has been reported at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Sunday.
The FAA listed the cause for the ground stop as an “equipment outage.” In a statement, the agency described it as a “runway equipment issue” and said “technicians are working to address the problem.” You can find real-time flight delay information at www.fly.faa.gov.”
Today:
“’Runway equipment issue’ causing delays at Atlanta airport, ground stop extended for departures from several regions of US”
“A ground stop for flights into Atlanta from much of the country has been reported at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Sunday.
The FAA listed the cause for the ground stop as an “equipment outage.” In a statement, the agency described it as a “runway equipment issue” and said “technicians are working to address the problem.” You can find real-time flight delay information at www.fly.faa.gov.”
The ground stop applies to flights departing for Atlanta from numerous zones across the middle and eastern portions of the U.S.
An airport spokesperson provided 11Alive the following statement, saying the equipment outage was in the air traffic control tower: “An equipment outage at ATL’s Air Traffic Control Tower is currently causing delays for inbound and outbound aircraft. For further details please contact the FAA. In the meantime, we encourage passengers to contact their respective airlines and visit ATL.com for further information on their individual travel itineraries.”
The ATC controllers coped with the situation...again.
Dems are turning the USA into a Third World country.
I misread it as “run away” equipment. Thought heckI’d run away too because of horrid conditions at most airports esp. Atlanta
Newark… now Atlanta… pattern developing?
Starting decades ago, Air Traffic Control has been identified as one of the most stressful and hardest to fill jobs. The systems were hailed as the means of alleviating that stress to allow folks with less fortitude staff the positions.
Having the system go down is a two-fer. Not only is the tool not working, the individual who relied on it is far less capable of dealing with stress than his or her predecessors who never had the tool to rely on.
I, for one, would just like to see a headline like "Newark air traffic control radar goes down for a second time". No drama, just fact.
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