New York – Passengers with flights to or from the Newark Liberty International Airport found long delays and cancellations on Saturday due to a shortage of air traffic controller, a national problem of the Trump administration. He has promised To fix.
He busy airport Outside New York city he experienced interruptions throughout the week. Criticizing the Federal Aviation Administration alleged failure to address the challenges of “long submergence” related to the air traffic control system, United Airlines reduced 35 daily flights since its Newark schedule starting on Saturday.
The United CEO, Scott Kirby, said the technology used to manage airplanes at the New Jersey airport failed more than once in recent days. Flight delays, cancellations and deviations from the problems of the equipment caused were aggravated when more than a fifth of Newark traffic controllers “came out of work,” he said.
“This private air traffic control installation has had little chronic personnel for years and without these controllers, it is now clear, and the FAA tells us, that Newark airport cannot handle the amount of airplanes that are scheduled to operate there in the coming weeks and months,” Kirby wrote in a Letter to customers.
The status reports of the FAA data airport were said Personnel problems They caused average delays of almost two hours for some arrival flights in Newark, and average delays of 45 minutes for exits.
Two days before, Newark Liberty International Airport said Both personnel problems and “construction” By warning travelers about delays.
The Trump administration says it has been trying to “overfeed” the workforce of the air traffic controller and make movements to address the The nation’s scarcity shortage. The Secretary of Transportation of the United States, Sean DuffyOn Thursday, he announced a program to recruit new controllers and give existing incentives not to retire.
The National Association of Air Traffic Controllers, a workers’ union, said at that time that these movements could help address personnel scarcity, but also said that the system is ” Very delay for technology and infrastructure updates. “
Duffy said on Friday that he visited “our hard work air traffic controllers while working to fix these interruptions of equipment caused by obsolete technology.”
United’s decision to support his flight schedule in Newark arrives at a time already uncertain for US airlines. Potential clients throughout the industry are reconsidering whether to fly for work or for vacations given all unknowns about what President Donald Trump’s trade war will do to The economy.
Uncertainty is so high that United recently made the unusual movement to offer two separate forecasts on how could work financially this year: one if there was a recession, and one if not.
Newark, United Fly to 76 American cities and 81 international destinations.
