Metro Newark Airport air traffic controllers experience another alarming system outage: FAA By Ronny Reyes Published May 19, 2025, 3:40 p.m. ET ...

We are a busy airport, but the Atlantas, the Denvers, they have three runways, and can run 160 operations an hour. We just don’t have the pavement for that, or room for a fourth runway.

A 90-second loss of radar coverage and radio communications on April 28 caused five controllers to take 45-day trauma leave, saddling the Newark airport with rolling flight delays.