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FAA, DOT lay out plan to enhance operations at Newark airport

Editorial Board Published May 7, 2025
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‘The Large Cash Present’ panel discusses America’s ageing infrastructure after one other airport incident.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday introduced a set of initiatives that Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and performing Administrator Chris Rocheleau plan to implement instantly to enhance operations at New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport. 

Instantly following the disaster that unfolded final week, when an FAA facility misplaced radar and radio communications for practically 90 seconds whereas directing planes to Newark, the company started working to enhance the reliability of operations on the main airport, together with accelerating technological and logistical enhancements and rising air site visitors controller staffing.  

It started slowing arrivals and departures on the airport, one of many busiest within the U.S., to account for staffing and expertise points at Philadelphia TRACON, which guides plane out and in of Newark airport. The airport’s challenges have been additional strained by ongoing building on the area, which leaves it quickly working with solely considered one of two parallel runways.

NEWARK AIRPORT ‘ONE OF MANY VOLCANOES WAITING TO ERUPT,’ PILOT SAYS

A United Airways plane at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in Newark, New Jersey. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg through Getty Pictures / Getty Pictures)

The problems make clear how the air site visitors management system has been beneath immense strain for years given the persisting staffing shortages, outdated expertise and underinvestment in crucial infrastructure. It is an issue Duffy pledged to handle, notably following the midair collision between American Eagle Flight 5342 and an Military helicopter on Jan. 29 that left all of the aircraft’s 64 passengers and crew and the helicopter’s three personnel lifeless.

Amongst their aims, Duffy and Rocheleau wish to add three new, high-bandwidth telecommunications connections between the New York-based STARS and Philadelphia TRACON, which they imagine will enhance pace, reliability and redundancy.

STARS is an FAA system that processes radar knowledge for Newark and relies in New York. Telecommunications strains feed this knowledge from New York to the Philadelphia TRACON, the place controllers deal with Newark arrivals and departures. 

Duffy and Rocheleau are additionally in search of to exchange copper telecommunications connections with up to date fiberoptic expertise, which has larger bandwidth and pace, in line with the FAA. 

NEWARK AIRPORT HIT WITH NEW DELAYS, OUTAGE HEARD ON AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO

The company may even deploy a short lived backup system to the Philadelphia TRACON to offer redundancy because it switches to a extra dependable fiberoptic community.

Sean Duffy, US secretary of transportation, during a swearing-in ceremony in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. Duffy tackled his first road rules challenge within hours of taking the helm of the Transportation Department, ordering a rewrite Tuesday night of stringent federal fuel economy rules for cars that were enacted by former President Joe Biden. Photographer: Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg  / Getty Pictures)

The FAA will create a STARS hub on the Philadelphia TRACON in order that the power doesn’t rely upon a telecommunications feed from the New York STARS hub, and it’ll instantly work to extend controller staffing. 

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The world within the Philadelphia TRACON that handles Newark site visitors has 22 totally licensed controllers and 21 controllers and supervisors in coaching, in line with the FAA. Ten of these 21 controllers and supervisors are receiving on-the-job coaching and all 10 are licensed in not less than one place.

Two are licensed for a number of positions, in line with the FAA, which mentioned there may be additionally a “healthy pipeline with training classes filled through July 2026.” 

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