A U.S. government watchdog said on Monday it will probe the Federal Aviation Administration's 2024 decision to relocate some ...

The agency is short about 3,000 air traffic controllers, and even an ambitious hiring surge would only make a dent in coming ...

A watchdog for the US Transportation Department has initiated a probe into the decision to relocate a key piece of Newark ...

Staff are burnt out — and very concerned about safety and feel very strongly that those moved to Philadelphia should come ...

Newark airport faces delays amid staffing shortages, adding to challenges from equipment outages and runway construction that ...

In past years, the average has been around 77 per hour. Newark Airport air traffic control system improvements may take longer than hoped, officials say ...

An air traffic controller who works the airspace around Newark, N.J. speaks out about what it was like to lose radar and communication systems during a shift, and how the situation got to be so bad.

The FAA currently has 22 fully certified air traffic controllers and five supervisors assigned to Newark in the Philadelphia facility, but the agency wants to have 38 controllers there.

Twice in the past two-and-a-half weeks, the radar and communications systems that air traffic controllers in Philadelphia who direct planes in and out of Newark rely on failed for a short time. That ...

Politics Newark Airport to receive federal funding for air traffic control upgrades Published: Jul. 17, 2025, 2:28 p.m.

The air traffic controllers directing planes into the Newark, New Jersey, airport lost their radar Friday morning for the second time in two weeks. The Federal Aviation Administration said the radar ...

The already short-staffed air traffic control facility in Philadelphia that directs planes in and out of Newark lost five controllers to trauma leave after the first radar and communications ...