Topline. T he communications breakdown that sparked the crisis at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport 10 days ago wasn’t the first time air traffic controllers have lost radio ...

The lack of just a dozen air traffic controllers has contributed to danger, chaos, and waves of delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty International Airport. Yet the Federal Aviation ...

The Newark facility is one of the highest-profile airports in the country, typically handling around 1,000 planes each day, according to data released by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.

United Airlines, for example, which has a major hub at Newark, is allowing passengers flying in or out of the airport through May 23 to switch to a flight on another day at no extra charge.

New outage worsens crisis at Newark Liberty Airport Matthew Fazelpoor // May 9, 2025 // The $2.7 billion Terminal A at Newark Liberty International Airport officially opened in January 2023.

The Newark airport crisis is about to become everyone’s problem. A shortage of air traffic controllers, bungled IT management, outdated technology, and a brewing disaster in our airspace.

The Newark Airport Crisis Started When Controllers Lost Contact With Planes. By Matt Stieb, Intelligencer staff writer. Updated May 6, 2025. save d. Save this article to read it later.

One air traffic controller (ATC) and a trainee will operate every flight in and out of Newark between 6.30pm-9.30pm — despite 15 staffers being the standard requirement for a shift.

Newark Airport faces delays due to FAA Traffic Management Program triggered by ... Arriving flights delayed an average of over 90 minutes as nationwide air traffic controller crisis continues.

A 90-second radar and communication blackout at Newark Airport on April 28 raised serious safety concerns. United Airlines has canceled 35 daily flights due to staffing shortages and equipment ...

Newark Airport crisis, other recent incidents fire-up debate over privatizing air traffic control Sen. Ted Cruz said some of the FAA’s current tech 'seems like it was assembled at a Radio Shack ...

Newark faces an airport staffing crisis. Here’s why FAA can’t fix it faster. The chaos and canceled flights stem from an air traffic controller shortage that reveals the depth of the FAA’s ...