Floor cease at Newark airport because of Air Traffic Control communication points

NEWARK, New Jersey (WABC) — A floor cease on Thursday morning at Newark Liberty International Airport had a ripple impact all through the day simply because the Labor Day weekend journey rush kicked into full gear.

The issues began when the FAA issued a brief floor cease for arriving flights due to Air Traffic Control communication points.

Air Traffic Controllers within the heart informed ABC News they misplaced their radio frequencies.

As a end result, incoming flights to Newark and Teterboro airports had been ground-stopped because of tools points till 12:30 p.m.

However, by 4 p.m. there have been nonetheless 2.5 hour delays and the FAA had diminished the variety of flights coming into the airport.

Departing flights didn’t look like impacted.

A spokesperson with United Airlines described the bottom cease as a “glitch.”

This is the second outage for controllers on the Philadelphia ATC heart that handles air visitors management for Newark airspace within the final 24 hours.

There was one other outage between 6:30 and seven:30 p.m. Wednesday the place audio wasn’t coming in clear between planes and controllers for a short time.

Controllers at Newark had been warned that frequency points may occur any time over the following 24 hours, an on-duty controller informed ABC News.

The FAA is decreasing flights into Newark to twenty-eight per hour till a minimum of Friday in comparison with the earlier 34 an hour. Arrivals are additionally being spaced out about to twenty miles aside as they strategy the airport.

After comparable Air Traffic Control points earlier this spring, the FAA diminished the variety of flights going out and in of the airport by way of the summer season.

This all comes because the FAA expects this to be the busiest Labor Day Weekend for air journey in 15 years.

United Airlines says they are going to carry half one million extra passengers than they did final yr for the vacation. They say they’re totally conscious of any points and they’re prepared to assist passengers make it to their locations.

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