United Airlines urges people to consider avoiding Newark

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Updated: May. 05, 2025, 8:43 p.m.|Published: May. 05, 2025, 1:36 p.m.

By Nyah Marshall | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
United Airlines passengers flying through Newark Liberty International Airport are being urged to consider switching to other airports amid ongoing delays and cancellations.

As of 1:30 p.m. on Monday, 265 flights had been delayed and 151 were canceled for the day in Newark, one of the country‘s busiest airports, according to FlightAware ...

https://www.nj.com/news/2025/05/united-airlines-urges-people-to-consider-avoiding-newark-find-a-different-airport.html

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1. Air traffic controllers lost communication with Newark planes

By Lauren Mascarenhas, Pete Muntean, Rene Marsh and Amanda Musa, CNN

Updated 12:18 AM EDT, Tue May 6, 2025Air traffic controllers who lost communication with aircraft at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, leading to hundreds of delays for more than a week, are taking special government leave for traumatic situations to recover from the stress.

The controllers in Philadelphia Terminal Radar Approach Control, which coordinates planes arriving at Newark, “temporarily lost radar and communications with the aircraft under their control, unable to see, hear, or talk to them,” on Monday April 28, the National Air Traffic Controllers Association said in a statement shared with CNN ...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/05/us/newark-airport-additional-flight-delays

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2. I don't think that's getting enough attention

What caused them to lose communications?

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4. I'd bet on Mr Chainsaw

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3. Aviation Safety At Risk Amid DOGE Cuts

Suzanne Rowan Kelleher

Mar 4, 2025,03:39pm EST

Aviation leaders criticized DOGE for firing approximately 400 Federal Aviation Administration employees in mid-February ...

“Haphazardly eliminating positions and encouraging resignations are having a demoralizing effect on the workforce,” testified David Spero, president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, which represents 132 terminated FAA workers who installed, maintained, and certified air traffic control and national defense equipment.

Spero added “no assessment had been done” before the firings to determine their impact on aviation safety.

Although air traffic controllers were exempted from DOGE firings, additional pressures on them puts them in a “very vulnerable position and as risk to the system,” Nick Daniels, president of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association, testified.

Transport Secretary Sean Duffy announced a “hiring supercharge” for air traffic controllers last week, but Nicholas Calio, CEO of lobby group Airlines for America, said: “It's not going to be enough. The numbers don't add up” ...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2025/03/04/aviation-safety-doge-cuts-shutdown-fears/

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5. Ugh

I'm booked for July 2nd flight to Las Vegas hopefully they atbleast solve this immediate mess before then.