{"id":169517,"date":"2025-05-20T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/faa-orders-airlines-to-cut-schedules-at-newark-as-travel-woes-persist-the-points-guy\/"},"modified":"2025-05-20T22:18:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T22:18:28","slug":"faa-orders-airlines-to-cut-schedules-at-newark-as-travel-woes-persist-the-points-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/20\/faa-orders-airlines-to-cut-schedules-at-newark-as-travel-woes-persist-the-points-guy\/","title":{"rendered":"FAA orders airlines to cut schedules at Newark as travel woes persist – The Points Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The Federal Aviation Administration will limit flights at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR), as travel woes at the busy New York area hub threaten to spill into the peak summer travel season.<\/p>\n

The FAA on Tuesday announced an interim order<\/a> capping the number of hourly flights at 56 (28 takeoffs and 28 landings) between now and mid-June, in hopes of reducing congestion and stemming a spate of flight delays.<\/p>\n

The agency would relax those rules a bit, to 34 hourly departures and arrivals, after construction wraps up on the airport’s busiest runway.<\/p>\n

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Weeks of frustration<\/h2>\n

This temporary order by the FAA comes after weeks of travel disruptions<\/a> caused by that renovation project, combined with the effects of staffing shortages and technical outages to critical air traffic control systems.<\/p>\n

In recent weeks, the Philadelphia air traffic control center that governs Newark’s airspace has experienced multiple communications outages that interrupted ATC contact with flying aircraft.<\/p>\n

In the wake of one particularly stressful outage last month, a handful of controllers went on federally-authorized leave.<\/a><\/p>\n

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