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Is it safe to fly to Newark Liberty International Airport in the wake of recent outages? Officials say it is
- Philadelphia-Based air traffic control center overseeing Newark Liberty International Airport experienced several outages in recent weeks, including a 45-minute ground stop on Sunday morning.
- These outages, including a major one on April 28 causing over 1,000 cancellations, followed the relocation of Newark flight controllers from New York to Philadelphia without adequate preparation.
- The FAA created an emergency task force and applied software updates while installing fiberoptic cables to improve system stability and prevent future failures at Newark.
- Acting FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau and experts including United CEO Scott Kirby affirmed that flying at Newark remains safe despite disruptions, with over half of flights delayed recently but no direct safety compromise.
- Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy attributed ongoing failures to the previous administration and announced an inspector general investigation, while airlines reduce flights and a DOT delay reduction meeting is planned to mitigate issues.
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Congress must own responsibility and 'get to work' on needed FAA upgrades: Sheehy
Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) urged his fellow congressional lawmakers to “get to work” on providing the Federal Aviation Administration with necessary upgrades, suggesting Congress must own some responsibility for not getting these changes implemented sooner. The state of air travel in the United States has come under great scrutiny in recent months, with outages at Newark Liberty International Airport getting most of the attention. Sheehy, a former c…
Is it safe to fly to Newark Liberty International Airport? What officials are saying
Over the past two weeks, several equipment outages at the Philadelphia-based air traffic control center that guides planes to and from Newark Liberty International Airport, have raised questions on just how safe it is to fly at one of the nation’s busiest airports.
Is it safe to fly to Newark Liberty International Airport in the wake of recent outages? Officials say it is
Over the past two weeks, several equipment outages at the Philadelphia-based air traffic control center that guides planes to and from Newark Liberty International Airport, have raised questions on just how safe it is to fly at one of the nation’s busiest airports.
2 more air traffic outages at Newark, New Jersey airport trigger further disruptions, expose National Airspace System on the brink
In the aftermath of events like this, the FAA consistently claims that “safety was never compromised.” This is double-speak for “nothing happened this time.”
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