Rattled flyers are deciding that trips through Newark just aren’t worth it.
For days, red cancellation signs have flashed across the airport’s boards and flights have been delayed, leaving travelers stranded. And then there was the revelation about an unsettling lapse: a 90-second breakdown in radio contact for air traffic controllers, which passed safely but had the potential for catastrophe.
A worker shortage, aging technology and runway construction mean a fix for the chaos is unlikely to come soon. The tumult, coming in the wake of a series of high-profile aviation incidents across the US,