ATC guy: avoid Newark ‘at all costs’
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20% of Newark ATC has walked off the job.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/us/newark-airport-delays-air-traffic-staffing
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It seems COVID restrictions had something to do with it. How stupid is that?
In March 2020, the FAA suspended training at the FAA Academy in Oklahoma City for four months, in addition to pausing training at key facilities for periods ranging from seven months to nearly two years. The academy resumed training in July 2020 but with a 50 percent reduction in class size to accommodate the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for social distancing.
The report noted that “due to these uncertain training outcomes, FAA cannot ensure it will successfully train enough controllers in the short term.”
https://www.flyingmag.com/watchdog-report-faa-lacks-a-plan-to-address-atc-shortages/
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I once spent the night on a bench on the sidewalk at Newark Airport, waiting for it to open.
It's a long story, I was working at Exit 8A and my wife went into labor. It was the last time I flew on a DC8. It only had a few passengers, a very nice flight.
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I avoid Newark at all costs for other reasons.
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I avoid Newark at all costs for other reasons.
@LuFins-Dad said in Avoid Newark ‘at all costs’:
I avoid Newark at all costs for other reasons.
We had a data center in Newark, near the airport. We had to unlock the chain link fence any time we came or went. The fence surrounded the parking lot and was topped off with concertina wire.
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I once spent the night on a bench on the sidewalk at Newark Airport, waiting for it to open.
It's a long story, I was working at Exit 8A and my wife went into labor. It was the last time I flew on a DC8. It only had a few passengers, a very nice flight.
@Copper said in Avoid Newark ‘at all costs’:
I once spent the night on a bench on the sidewalk at Newark Airport, waiting for it to open.
It's a long story, I was working at Exit 8A and my wife went into labor. It was the last time I flew on a DC8. It only had a few passengers, a very nice flight.
That was a looonnnggg time ago.
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Then there was the old People Express terminal. It was tiny and had a low ceiling and People Express had a 747 flight from Newark to Boston. The terminal was built for small airplanes and the 747 was not small, it was a shoulder-to-shoulder cattle car, but it was cheap.
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Then there was the old People Express terminal. It was tiny and had a low ceiling and People Express had a 747 flight from Newark to Boston. The terminal was built for small airplanes and the 747 was not small, it was a shoulder-to-shoulder cattle car, but it was cheap.
@Copper said in ATC guy: avoid Newark ‘at all costs’:
Then there was the old People Express terminal. It was tiny and had a low ceiling and People Express had a 747 flight from Newark to Boston. The terminal was built for small airplanes and the 747 was not small, it was a shoulder-to-shoulder cattle car, but it was cheap.
Wow!! That seems like it would be a really short flight. It would probably never fly at the proper height. LOL. Get up to height, and when it got there, start going down for the landing.
