{"id":314,"date":"2025-05-12T14:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/?p=314"},"modified":"2025-05-23T10:36:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T10:36:27","slug":"newark-airport-traffic-slowed-due-to-new-telecommunications-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/12\/newark-airport-traffic-slowed-due-to-new-telecommunications-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Newark Airport traffic slowed due to new telecommunications issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly slowed air traffic at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday because a new telecommunications issue affected the Philadelphia facility that guides planes into and out of New Jersey\u2019s largest airport.<\/p>\n

The FAA said in a statement that the agency slowed traffic amid work to ensure \u201credundancies were working as designed\u201d before normal airport operations resume, according to The Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The disruptions come as the airport has been in the national spotlight<\/a> for delays as a result of staffing issues, largely among air traffic controllers, and technological challenges. The airport is also undergoing construction of its runway, worsening delays.<\/p>\n

For 90 seconds on April 28, controllers at a Philadelphia air traffic control center who were responsible for monitoring air traffic in and out of Newark Airport lost radar and communications with the flights.<\/p>\n

They were unable to \u201csee, hear, or talk to them,\u201d the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said, according to The New York Times.<\/p>\n

A subsequent outage Friday deepened<\/a> a backlog of cancellations and delays at Newark, which is one of the three main New York City-area airports and one of the busiest in the nation.<\/p>\n

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Sunday the federal government has reduced the number of flights<\/a> departing from Newark in response to the latest disruptions, saying, \u201cour mission is safety.\u201d<\/p>\n

Duffy during an interview on NBC News\u2019s \u201cMeet the Press\u201d sought to reassure Americans of the safety of flying through Newark, while acknowledging the need for significant changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate delays. I hate cancellations. \u2026 But I want you to get to where you\u2019re traveling. And if that means slowing down flights into Newark, we slow them down to make sure we can do it safely,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs it safe? Yes. We have redundancies, multiple redundancies in place to keep you safe when you fly. But we should also recognize we\u2019re seeing \u2014 we\u2019re seeing stress on an old network, and it\u2019s time to fix it,\u201d Duffy added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) briefly slowed air traffic at Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday because a new telecommunications issue affected the Philadelphia facility that guides planes into and out of New Jersey\u2019s largest airport. The FAA said in a statement that the agency slowed traffic amid work to ensure \u201credundancies were working as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/excellentdevelop.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}