So Sean Duffy, the US Transportation Secretary, has been insisting that Newark Airport is safe despite all the recent system and staffing failures, but then he quietly changed his wife’s flight from Newark to LaGuardia.
‘I fly out of Newark all the time, my family flies out of Newark,’ said Sean Duffy before admitting he switched his wife’s flight from Newark to LaGuardia.
Newark Liberty is one of the biggest airports in the NY area and the 12th busiest in the US, but has recently been plagued with issues.
The most serious communications blackout last Friday lasted for 90 seconds, during which time contact was broken between the control tower and planes. And on Monday, the airport didn’t have its usual number of 14 air traffic controllers but only THREE, leading to delays in flights of up to seven hours.
What no one close to Trump is saying out loud is that Elon Musk’s Doge cut the staff at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the agency responsible for air safety.
