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Heavy, low cloud cover led to a ground stop being issued for arriving flights at Philadelphia International Airport on Tuesday morning, the airport said on social media. The ground stop was lifted by 9:20 a.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that “fast-track” fixes are being made to address the continuing communications and radar failures at Newark Liberty International Airport.
The shortage on Monday forced the F.A.A. to delay flights to the busy airport for up to nearly seven hours, the latest problem to plague the airport.
There was another air traffic control outage in less than two weeks at the same Philadelphia facility that directs planes in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport on Friday morning.
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The Trump administration announced an emergency task force of executives from Verizon, L3Harris and the FAA to fix the communication issues at Newark airport.
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Duffy laid out an extensive plan to replace the nation’s outdated air traffic control system last week, including installing 4,600 new high-speed data connections and replacing 618 radars, but didn’t put a price tag on the plan other than to say it will cost billions.
Philadelphia International Airport just ranked dead last in the U.S. for flight disruptions. According to new data from AirHelp, 20.9% of flights out of PHL were disrupted last month. Compare that to San Francisco International where only 14.4% of flights hit a slight snag... oof.