{"id":26188,"date":"2025-11-02T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26188\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:59:08","slug":"newark-airport-delays-reach-3-hours-sunday-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/26188\/","title":{"rendered":"Newark Airport delays reach 3 hours Sunday \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Flight delays continued at U.S. airports Sunday amid\u00a0air traffic controller shortages<\/a>\u00a0as the government shutdown entered its second month, with Newark airport in New Jersey experiencing delays of two to three hours.<\/p>\n

New York City’s Emergency Management office said on X that Newark delays often ripple out to the region’s other airports.<\/p>\n

Travelers flying to, from or through New York \u201cshould expect schedule changes, gate holds, and missed connections. Anyone flying today should check flight status before heading to the airport and expect longer waits,\u201d the social media post added.<\/p>\n

U.S. Transportation Secretary\u00a0Sean Duffy<\/a>\u00a0has been warning that travelers will start to see more flight disruptions the longer controllers go without a paycheck.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe work overtime to make sure the system is safe. And we will slow traffic down, you\u2019ll see delays, we\u2019ll have flights canceled to make sure the system is safe,\u201d\u00a0Duffy said Sunday<\/a>\u00a0on CBS’S \u201cFace the Nation with Margaret Brennan.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said he does not plan to fire air traffic controllers who don’t show up for work.<\/p>\n

\u201cAgain when they\u2019re making decisions to feed their families, I\u2019m not going to fire air traffic controllers,\u201d Duffy said. \u201cThey need support, they need money, they need a paycheck. They don\u2019t need to be fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier in October, Duffy had warned air traffic controllers who had called in sick instead of working without a paycheck during the shutdown risked being fired. Even a small number of controllers not showing up for work is causing problems because the FAA has a critical shortage of them.<\/p>\n

The Federal Aviation Administration said Friday on X that nearly 13,000 air traffic controllers have been working without pay for weeks.<\/p>\n

Staffing shortages can occur both in regional control centers that manage multiple airports and in individual airport towers, but they don\u2019t always lead to flight disruptions. According to aviation analytics firm Cirium, flight data showed strong on-time performance at most major U.S. airports for the month of October despite isolated staffing problems throughout the month.<\/p>\n

Before the shutdown, the FAA was already dealing with a long-standing shortage of about 3,000 air traffic controllers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Flight delays continued at U.S. airports Sunday amid\u00a0air traffic controller shortages\u00a0as the government shutdown entered its second month,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3346,2564,9,24,55,54,56,87,14497],"class_list":{"0":"post-26188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-air-travel","9":"tag-government-shutdown","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-city-news","14":"tag-ny","15":"tag-politics","16":"tag-u-s-government"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}