Under fire U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has met with the major airlines over weeks-long issues at Newark Liberty International Airport.
The airport has suffered more than two weeks of delays and disruption since late April.
The FAA has proposed limiting the number of flights at the airport on a temporary basis.
It proposed 56 flights an hour, down from the current more than 70.
On April 28 and May 9 radar and communications with pilots cut out for a short period.
The FAA’s head of air traffic controllers, Frank McIntosh, said the 90 seconds that communication was lost was ‘a long disruption for a radar screen to go blank or not to be able to talk to aircraft.’
Newark’s dominant airline United has reduced flights by about 10% at the airport.
The air traffic control, which is overseen from a facility in Philadelphia, is understaffed
Duffy has taken flak after saying flying in and out of Newark is safe but then quietly changed his wife’s flight routing to avoid the airport.
