Overview
- Reduced arrival and departure rates at Newark Liberty are extended through October 2026, maintaining temporary caps set after this year’s operational failures.
- The FAA increased allowable takeoffs and landings by four per hour to 72, still below the pre-cap level of more than 80 per hour.
- Officials report a completed transition to a new fiber‑optic communications link between New York and the Philadelphia TRACON.
- Controller staffing has improved, with 22 fully certified controllers and five certified supervisors in place and 27 more in training.
- United Airlines, Newark’s largest carrier, backs the continued limits as a way to reduce delays following earlier radar and radio outages that triggered thousands of cancellations.