A meeting to discuss reducing the number of flights at Newark Liberty International Airport is set to continue tomorrow.The 맥스카지노�delay reduction meeting,맥스카지노� called by the Federal Aviation Administration, started Wednesday and seeks to have airlines agree to not fly as many flights into the busy New Jersey hub airport to minimize cancellations and delays.맥스카지노�The FAA has brought in together all of the airlines who serve Newark to have a conversation about how there can be a delayed reduction,맥스카지노� Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told a congressional hearing Wednesday. 맥스카지노�So, if you book your flight, that flight is going to fly. You don맥스카지노�t have people at the airport for two, four, six, hours, then a flight canceled.맥스카지노�United Airlines, Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Air all attended the meeting.Airlines are required to follow specific procedures during the meeting to ensure compliance with anti-trust regulations.It comes after more than two weeks of delays and cancellations prompted by air traffic control staffing shortages at a Philadelphia TRACON facility that handles flights headed to or from the airport, runway construction and congestion.Thirty-eight certified professional controllers are needed to operate the facility that handles Newark traffic, yet only 24 of the positions 맥스카지노� 63% 맥스카지노� are currently filled, the FAA notes in the meeting announcement.Sixteen of those controllers are due to return to a New York FAA facility next year.Additionally, five controllers took a 45-day trauma leave after an outage on April 28 caused their radar screens to go blank for 90 seconds and their radios to go out for 30 seconds during the busy afternoon.The primary telecommunications line failed and a backup line did not kick in, FAA Deputy Chief Operating Officer Franklin McIntosh testified Wednesday at a Senate hearing.맥스카지노�That redundant line is supposed to assume that that load, and it맥스카지노�s supposed to be instantaneous,맥스카지노� he said. 맥스카지노�When we lost that first line, the second line did not kick in like it was designed to do.맥스카지노�The data lines were installed after the facility moved from New York to Philadelphia in July, but McIntyre said it is not unique to controllers handling flights into Newark.맥스카지노�We have this system across the United States feeding radar data like this, where we have a line in a redundant line, and we haven맥스카지노�t had a failure like this degree in my memory,맥스카지노� he said.An FAA task force, including telecommunication providers Crown Castle and Verizon, met this week with the aim of installing a third line by this summer.The Department of Transportation has promised additional upgrades to this facility as well as the entire air traffic control system in the months and years ahead.At the House Appropriations Committee hearing, Duffy outlined nearly $27 billion in discretionary spending the department is requesting for the next fiscal year, including more than $1 billion increase to help modernize the air traffic control system.McIntyre acknowledged staffing is tight in the TRACON facility with just three controllers working all Newark arrivals and departures over one hour Monday night.맥스카지노�I맥스카지노�m trying to understand, why is it that we맥스카지노�re now down from seven, which is basically what you think you need, down to three?맥스카지노� asked Sen. Maria Cantwell, ranking member of the committee.맥스카지노�We did lose some controllers in that area due to either some sick leave that was unscheduled or some other leave that was not scheduled,맥스카지노� McIntyre responded. 맥스카지노�When those things happen맥스카지노� we맥스카지노�ll put in the appropriate traffic management initiatives to keep the flying public safe and make sure that we put controllers in the position to be successful.맥스카지노�Since April 15, traffic management initiatives at Newark have included ground stops and ground delays, which keep planes heading to Newark from taking off.맥스카지노�When we have a staffing shortage and we cannot open enough positions, we put in traffic management initiatives to slow the aircraft down,맥스카지노� he said. 맥스카지노�That맥스카지노�s exactly what we did that night at Philadelphia area C, we put in a ground delay program to keep traffic manageable.맥스카지노�Since runway construction at Newark started on April 15, the airport saw an average of 34 cancellations per day and 맥스카지노�consistently high맥스카지노� delayed arrivals, with an average delay time of 137 minutes during the 5 p.m. hour each evening.맥스카지노�EWR is unacceptably congested airport due to current circumstances,맥스카지노� the FAA said, referring to Newark맥스카지노�s airport code, in the delay reduction meeting notice. 맥스카지노�The airport clearly is unable to handle the current level of scheduled operations.맥스카지노�Each airline will be asked to offer 맥스카지노�specific flight reductions or schedule modifications맥스카지노� not contingent on what other airlines do, the notice said. The FAA will then consider an order that could limit schedules at the airport.Chicago-based United Airlines, which operates a hub at Newark, recently called for assigned 맥스카지노�slots맥스카지노� at the airport, which would require government approval before any flights could be scheduled.In the meeting notice, the FAA proposed limiting flights to only 28 domestic airline arrivals and 28 departures per hour until runway construction is complete on June 15, and during weekends in the fall. During other times, 34 domestic airline arrivals and 34 departures would be allowed each hour at the airport.International air operations will be managed through a different process.