Most of the flights for Newark Liberty International Airport were delayed in their origin airports in more than an hour and 40 minutes on Monday due to a deficit in air traffic control staff.
The Federal Aviation Administration said in a notice that it was delaying incoming flights from all US airports and some in Canada. The agency did not respond immediately to a comment request.
While the incoming flights were carried out, few flights to or from Newark had been canceled, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking company. Delays can have waterfall effects on flights around the world.
Monday’s delay is the last one in a series of setbacks for Newark, one of the most busy airports in the country and a large center for United Airlines. On Friday, an air traffic control installation that guides airport airport had an interruption of the letters. A similar interruption at the beginning of the month had left the controllers that they could not communicate with the pilots for about 90 seconds.
The FAA briefly slowed the flights to and from Newark again early on Sunday due to a telecommunications problem in the facilities. That day, the Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, said in “Meet The Press” of NBC that plans to slow down at the airport to better address the legal delays he has seen in recent weeks.
The Trump administration has also promised to install new fiber optic cables that connect the airport and the installation, which recently moved from Long Island in New York to Philadelphia.
At a press conference on Monday, Mr. Duffy tried to divert the guilt, saying that the previous administration had “frank” the moving to Philadelphia.
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