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Newark.........We have a problem.

'Newark airport experiences another terrifying air traffic control
outage, bringing flights to a standstill'

<https://nypost.com/2025/05/11/us-news/newark-airport-experiences-another-terrifying-air-traffic-control-outage-bringing-flights-to-a-standstill/>

'Almost 80 flights have been cancelled and more than 60 delayed at
Newark airport after yet another equipment outage brought more chaos to
the the NYC-area hub.

A 45-minute ground stop was ordered on Sunday morning by the FAA
following the outage at Newark’s ATC facility, officials told WABC.Then,
a short time later a different outage hit Atlanta’s

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport — the busiest in the country.

“Runway equipment issues” resulted in delays and ground stops for nearly all flights arriving at Atlanta.

A United Airlines Station Operation Center stands at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, U.S., May 9, 2025.
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A United Airlines Station Operation Center stands at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark on May 9, 2025.
REUTERS
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announces a new air traffic control infrastructure plan, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington.
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Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announces a new air traffic control infrastructure plan, Thursday, May 8, 2025, in Washington.
AP
The FAA said “technicians are working to address the problem” after the problem slowed arrivals about 10:30 a.m.

“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,” an FAA spokesperson
told 11Alive.

At Newark, the problem was yet again the Philadelphia-based air traffic
control center that controls the airport.

“There was a telecommunications issue at Philadelphia TRACON Area C,
which guides aircraft in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport airspace,” the FAA said in a statement. “The FAA briefly slowed aircraft
in and out of the airport while we ensured redundancies were working as designed.”

No flights were diverted during Sunday’s outage as of 11 a.m., according
to flight tracking website, FlightAware.

It comes after a radar malfunction on Friday morning brought Newark to a standstill briefly on Friday morning.

The 90-second-long radar and radio outage at the TRACON facility was
just days after a similar incident on April 28, which led to five air
traffic controllers taking leave on trauma grounds.

Controllers are entitled to at least 45 days away from the job and must
be evaluated by a doctor before they can return to work.

More than 1,000 flights were canceled in the face of the staff
shortages.

A person walks past a screen displaying delayed flights at Newark
Liberty International Airport on May 9, 2025.
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A person walks past a screen displaying delayed flights at Newark
Liberty International Airport on May 9, 2025.
REUTERS
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.

However, he insisted that “it is” safe to fly out of New Jersey’s
busiest airport, despite admitting that it uses an “old” system.

“In the next several weeks, we’re going to have this reduced capacity at Newark,” he said. “I’m convening a meeting of all the airlines that
serve Newark, get them to agree on how they’re going to reduce the
capacity. So you book, you fly.

“We are building a new line that goes directly from Newark to the Philly Tracon, which controls the New York airspace.”

Duffy insisted that the new line be completed by the end of the summer.

A 20% up-front bonus will be offered to new air traffic controllers to
try to plug the gaps left by staff shortages, he added'

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