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Any DLers travel through the air traffic control mess at Newark this last week? What's going on?

On April 28 in Philadelphia, an air traffic controller began shouting that he had lost his radar feed for planes flying in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport.

Some of his colleagues still had radar but their radios went dead, prompting frantic calls to their counterparts in New York urging them to keep their planes away from Newark’s airspace.

Then, for 30 harrowing seconds until the radios came back, there was nothing more to do but hope — as they had no means of telling pilots how to avoid crashing their planes into one another.

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by Anonymousreply 35May 16, 2025 4:19 AM

No flying for me.

by Anonymousreply 1May 8, 2025 4:11 AM

Donald Trump is what is going on.

by Anonymousreply 2May 8, 2025 5:32 AM

"She's a woman Ernest. A woman. From Newark for God's sake"...

by Anonymousreply 3May 8, 2025 5:35 AM

Oh, it's a big pretty white plane with red stripes, curtains in the windows and wheels and it looks like a big Tylenol.

by Anonymousreply 4May 8, 2025 6:26 AM

Three of the busiest airports in the world all located within a short distance, who knew?

by Anonymousreply 5May 8, 2025 11:42 AM

more bs

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by Anonymousreply 6May 10, 2025 1:40 AM

I have a trip to Iceland planned later in the year, and after these reports I'm going through Chicago.

by Anonymousreply 7May 10, 2025 1:42 AM

Trump of course blames Biden and Buttigieg.

But this never happened under Biden

by Anonymousreply 8May 10, 2025 1:59 AM

more problems at Newark this weekend

by Anonymousreply 9May 12, 2025 2:22 AM

Yesterday I flew international. I usually do about a 3 hour layover in Newark, but thankfully was able to rebook a layover through Chicago, since it was less than 24 hours since I had booked my flights. I was flying from Canada to Floriduh.

by Anonymousreply 10May 12, 2025 2:52 AM

Isn't Newark the most dangerous place to board a plane right now?

by Anonymousreply 11May 12, 2025 3:07 AM

trump's amerikkka.........get used to it dears. We have 45 months of this chaos left to suffer through.

by Anonymousreply 12May 12, 2025 10:59 PM

[quote]We have 45 months of this chaos left to suffer through.

We'll see about that.

by Anonymousreply 13May 12, 2025 11:04 PM

I'm confident MTV's The Real World's Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation is solving this as we speak!

by Anonymousreply 14May 12, 2025 11:28 PM

Colbert had Buttigieg on a few weeks ago. He showed him a picture of the Delta plane that flipped upside down landing in Toronto and asked, "Tell me, how many times did this happen when you were Secretary?"

by Anonymousreply 15May 13, 2025 6:20 AM

good explanation of the problem.

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by Anonymousreply 16May 14, 2025 12:17 PM

There were 3 air traffic controllers instead of 14, that is insane.

by Anonymousreply 17May 14, 2025 12:19 PM

People are re-thinking their travel plans over this. But also saying, if Newark is that bad, isn’t it likely that JFK and LaGuardia are only incrementally better?

by Anonymousreply 18May 14, 2025 12:22 PM

[quote] Three of the busiest airports in the world all located within a short distance, who knew?

Always avoid NY, if you can.

by Anonymousreply 19May 14, 2025 1:05 PM

The problem with Newark is that they moved ATC off site to PA and the data linkage is dropping radar and frequencies for 90 second periods. This leaves controllers in the dark for those 90 seconds or so and a lot of bad stuff can happen. This is not happening nationwide, although I expect ATC shortages to get exponentially worse in the next few months. This is not happening at JFK or LGA because they are not subject to the data transfer that EWR is. For now, it is not safe to fly into EWR. Avoid.

by Anonymousreply 20May 14, 2025 1:12 PM

R20 is right, the outage last week was due to a frayed wire connection.

by Anonymousreply 21May 14, 2025 1:23 PM

I liked going through Newark to Europe. Better than hateful JFk, the lines are shorter. But i’m taking a break now until they sort it out.

by Anonymousreply 22May 14, 2025 1:28 PM

Friends flying back from their place in France on United next week were rerouted by the airline through Dulles and then on to their final destination in FL.

by Anonymousreply 23May 14, 2025 1:34 PM

Joe Scarborough fire back through Newark and said the only noticable thing was the airport was empty..

It appears if you cut down on 80% of the flights, then there are enough controllers to make sure the planes don't collide.

by Anonymousreply 24May 14, 2025 2:03 PM

Spreading to Denver.

Outage leaves up to 20 pilots headed to Denver airport unable to contact air traffic control on Monday Denver7 Investigates learned through sources that pilots were unable to communicate with the Denver Air Route Traffic Control Center for up to six minutes.

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by Anonymousreply 25May 15, 2025 9:41 PM

R22 JFK is easy-peasy. What are you smoking? I fly out of there almost monthly.

by Anonymousreply 26May 15, 2025 10:57 PM

R20 it was off site before, too. The major problem Is that far fewer controllers took the transfer to Philly than anticipated, and the training period for getting to know EWR well is many months long (plus the wiring issue you’ve noted).

by Anonymousreply 27May 15, 2025 11:00 PM

R19 on the contrary —JFK has the best service to Europe and to the west coast. Those flights get the highest priority on the east coast (ATL is much more exposed to weather delays).

by Anonymousreply 28May 15, 2025 11:04 PM

North Jersey here and it’s a stack of hassles. Not only is EWR Newark in bad shape and possibly unsafe for air travel… NJ Transit engineers’ union is about to go on strike starting tonight at midnight, shutting down commuters’ train travel in and out of NYC.

by Anonymousreply 29May 15, 2025 11:07 PM

Sean Duffy from MTV's The Real World is our Secretary of Transportation, and Donald Trump is our President.

That's what's going on.

by Anonymousreply 30May 15, 2025 11:08 PM

That’s a good thing

by Anonymousreply 31May 15, 2025 11:09 PM

[quote]Isn't the U.S. the most dangerous place to board a plane right now?

FIFY

by Anonymousreply 32May 15, 2025 11:27 PM

Yes Newark was offsite (shared with LaGuardia & JFK?) before but now it’s Newark to old offsite to Philadelphia.

by Anonymousreply 33May 15, 2025 11:54 PM

r30 If you told someone from the 90s they would laugh.

by Anonymousreply 34May 16, 2025 3:28 AM

It cant be mentioned enough, that sean duffy's wife sucked Puck's nasty cock.

by Anonymousreply 35May 16, 2025 4:19 AM
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