The FAA Air Traffic Control Tower at Newark Liberty International Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on May 7, 2025.
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American airlines On Thursday, Chief Financial Officer said that some travelers avoid the Newark Liberty International Airport for other options in the region after a flood of the latest disorders, warned that the effects are “modest”.
“There are probably some book flights from Newark flights to Laguardia, JFK, perhaps Philadelphia,” said CFO Devon May on the Wolfe Research Conference.
The Federal Aviation Administration has instructed the airlines this week to temporarily cut the flights in Newark to relieve the traffic jams because the airlines at New Jersey Airport have to deal with a lack of air traffic controls, equipment and runway. Bad weather has also contributed to disorders in the past few weeks.
According to the latest data from the port authority of New York and New York and New Jersey, the airport together with Laguardia Airport and John F. Kennedy Airport, both in Queens, New York, operates American in Newark.
“Something happens there, but I think it's relatively modest when you think of the wider network,” said American's May.
United airlines Dwarfs all other airlines in Newark with its share of almost 70%. At the beginning of this month, this airlines proactively announced cuts of 35 flights per day to put more in the system.
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At the beginning of this month, the transport secretary Sean Duffy said that the United States will spend billions in order to revise the aging US air traffic control system.
President Donald Trump's tax laws, who passed the house early Thursday, comprises $ 12.5 billion for modernization and staff control.
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