Newark Airport was once more stricken by delays over Memorial Day weekend, with greater than 150 flights in and 230 flights out delayed on Saturday, in line with flight-tracking information.
With greater than 380 delays, Newark noticed the second most delays within the nation Saturday, trailing solely Denver Worldwide Airport, the place storms disrupted operations.
The troubles have been considerably mitigated on Sunday, with a complete of 132 flights — 78 arriving, 54 departing — delayed as of Sunday afternoon, in line with flight-tracking web site FlightAware.
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A United aircraft is parked on the gate at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in Newark, New Jersey on Might 7, 2025. (Photograph by kena betancur / AFP) (Photograph by KENA BETANCUR/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)
Climate was to not blame for the weekend points. Whereas Newark piled up greater than 380 delays on Saturday, Kennedy Airport noticed just below 200 delays and LaGuardia recorded hardly any delays.
Newark has been troubled with delays and cancellations for weeks, as a scarcity of air visitors controllers, getting older expertise and runway repairs have mixed in disastrous trend.
The issues turned so in depth that federal authorities minimize the variety of flights allowed out and in of the airport to twenty-eight arrivals and 28 departures per hour. These restrictions will proceed till at the very least June 15 and may very well be prolonged additional.
However the cutbacks haven’t stopped constant delays on the airport. As delays continued into Sunday, flights have been arriving and departing a mean of 35 minutes late, in line with FlightAware.
