Large delays at Newark Airport gather in the sixth day when the FAA personnel problems in air traffic control cite

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The personnel problems of the air traffic control continue to cause Large delays for passengers flying into the busy Newark Airport outside of New York City for an unprecedented sixth day in a row.

The Federal Aviation Administration once again imposed delays for flights for the Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey on Saturday, citing personnel. With some incoming flights, the average delays stretched over three hours on Saturday afternoon. According to flightsware, over 270 flights to or from Newark were delayed from Saturday afternoon – about a quarter of the flights planned at the airport.

On Friday, the FAA program for the soil delay from the FAA announced with an average of more than two hours for flights to Newark.

The FAA officially commented on the type of personnel problems, although the staff has been listed by the FAA as the cause of delays since Monday when equipment failures led to United Airlines canceled more than 100 flights and distracted 37 more.

Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, made an explanation of the delays on Friday and said the problems of the airport seem to be a combination of technology gliders, and “over 20% of the FAA controller for EEA (Newark Liberty International Airport) went off”.

From this weekend, the airline will cancel 35 round trip flights a day from its Newark time plan, as “we have the feeling that there is no other choice to protect our customers,” said Kirby.

“Remember that this special flight safety device has been chronically understaffed for years, and without these controllers it is now clear – and the FAA tells us – that Newark Airport cannot manage the number of aircraft that are planned there in the coming weeks and months,” said Kirby in his explanation.

In conversation with CNN at the airport on Saturday, a passenger described an “unbearable delay” on her flight.

The Friday flight of Izabela Olito from West Palm Beach to Newark was delayed for three and a half hours, she said.

Olito said she would be happy if airlines would notify passengers from delays: “Then we don’t have to leave the house and stranded at the airport for three to four hours.”

“I think it’s time to hire a new, more experienced staff,” she added. “I would be safer.”

United Flight 1909 had to go around Nebraska on Monday, halfway to Newark and return to San Francisco.

“We have a team up there.

“Ultimately, we have to make sure that the controllers have the right equipment and are obviously adequately occupied,” said Rocheleau.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Transport sentenced more financial incentives to hire air traffic controls and an incentive package for fighting retirement. The most recent step in combating a ongoing defect in the critical working group of the Federal Aviation Administration.

In the United States, there is a lack of 3,000 controllers, said transport secretary Sean Duffy at a press conference on Thursday in the DOT headquarters. Part of the incentives include a bonus of 5,000 US dollars for those who go through the Air Traffic Controller Academy, as well as bonuses for controllers who are at the locations of the facilities that are more difficult for the employees. The FAA also works to get the controllers to stay at the retirement age.

“They start seeing cracks in the system,” said Duffy at the press conference. “It is our job to actually see the horizon what the problems are and to fix it before there is an incident that we will seriously regret.”

The new delays caused by personnel procedures are just the latest development in the event of problems that are plagued by Newark Airport, as a busy summer travel season quickly approaches. In July in July, the FAA moved an important control system that was responsible for the Newark Avestor from Long Island to Philadelphia to seduce new employees in order to join the difficult to stand.

A CNN analysis of FAA air dream advice shows at least 14 days in a row of FAA that have imposed delays for flights to or from Newark. The airport is also in the middle of a rehabilitation project for runway, which regularly closes one of its main streets until mid -June.

Flightsware data showed that approximately each of five Newark flights were canceled to or by Newark and more than 40% of all descents and arrivals were delayed on Thursday.

Taylor Romine, Zoe Sottile and Leigh Waldman from CNN contributed to this report.