Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced a task force to deal with technical problems that have contributed to a plague of delays and cancellations at Newark Liberty Airport over the last couple of weeks. L3Harris and Verizon, along with FAA reps, have been named to a task force charged with digging in on literally the nuts and bolts of why there have been three troubling system failures since April 28. Duffy said the goal is to replace the existing copper phone lines between New York and Philadelphia, where Newark traffic is controlled, with three fiber optic lines. "We are going to fix Newark," Duffy said. No timeline has been set other than "as soon as possible."
Gee, it’s too bad Trump’s EO stopping all spending on the Biden Infrastructure Bill was signed, essentially halting all improvements that were in the works to fix these problems Newark is currently facing…
I have traveled out of EWR for 60 years. Back in the days of just the old north terminal on through all the expansions of new terminals and hundreds of gates. With all the billions spent on terminals and new gate capacity for commercial as well as the air freight expansion there are still just the 2 same prime runways. Should some of this load be shifted to Stewart and/or Atlantic City?
I don’t know why all the others go to EWR, but the few times I’ve needed to fly commercially recently (pre-covid, anyway; I haven’t flown commercially since then), I’ve used EWR specifically because it’s the easiest to get to/from with the Amtrak Newark Airport station. Stewart and Atlantic City are both farther and less convenient for me to get to/from. So it’s not as simple as just having more flights use those other airports.
Horses, people. Invest in a good Quarter Horse and you’ll go anywhere. You even get to travel on a real leather seat and get to make a new friend for life.
It was not broken.
They broke it because they are incompetent for any professional position.
You can’t fix something if you don’t know how it works.
This ain’t tv trash talk bring in those who have worked the system for decades.
What was the real reason for firing them ?
I didn’t do anything, and I mean ANYTHING, with my “horse”, a kawasaki z1000 for 7 YEARS. (shame on me, I know). Then, when I needed it’s services, i replaced the battery, put fresh “food” in its “stomach” (read, gas in the tank) and it started right up.
I believe a QH will likely smell funny after 7 years in storage. They do need frequent movement.
Nevertheless, if current administration continues to treat highly qualified ATC personell like government property, it wont be taking a rocket-surgeon to figure out that “no overtime” and “by the book” is a very valid option to communicate displeasure.
Its a bit like in Europe. We’ve run around playing red-cross all over the planet while our own infrastructure rotted away.
If just 50% of ATC personell began working by the book and skip any and all extra work - the great NAS would collapse like a house of cards on a windy day in Wyoming.
I understand that people like Trump, Musk and some of his cabinet have some old beef with our form of government, but current doctrine will lead to major constipation.
bring in those who have worked the system for decades.