Newark airport disruptions leave airline flyers scrambling as experts share tips for not being 'stranded'

Flight passengers departing and connecting done Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) successful New Jersey are sharing concerns astir question delays amid caller airdrome mishaps — arsenic experts stock alternate ideas and autobus companies study increases successful ridership. 

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued a crushed hold for EWR owed to staffing shortages, upwind and operation issues arsenic a caller study recovered that aerial postulation controllers concisely mislaid radar and vigor signals past week.

Brandon Blewett, the Texas-based writer of "How to Avoid Strangers connected Airplanes," told Fox News Digital helium has recovered EWR to beryllium little reliable successful caller days, but would inactive usage the airport.

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"If it was New Jersey, I’d apt inactive alert into Newark but take the earliest flights, which typically look less delays," said Blewett. 

"I’d debar immoderate connections done EWR close present … for amended reliability," helium said. 

Newark Airport successful New Jersey has been struggling with radar issues, staffing shortages and operation delays.  (Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

For travelers to and from New York City, Blewett suggested looking astatine different airports.

"I’d see alternatives to EWR similar LGA and JFK until the runway reopens and ATC staffing stabilizes," said Blewett. "It whitethorn beryllium much of a headache successful traffic, but it seems you’re little apt to beryllium stranded for the clip being."

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Gary Leff, a Texas-based question manufacture adept and writer of the blog "View From the Wing," told Fox News Digital that passengers should debar New York airports for connecting flights.

"If you're connecting, it's often a bully thought to debar New York airports. If you originate successful New York, it truly depends connected wherever successful the metropolis you're based," helium said. 

Travel experts urge alternatives specified arsenic John F. Kennedy Airport oregon LaGuardia Airport arsenic passengers are reporting important formation disruptions astatine Newark Airport. (iStock)

"While Newark is facing important problems close now, I'm not definite I'd bounce implicit to JFK if I lived connected Staten Island," helium added. "Weigh the evils."

Some passengers person taken to societal media to sermon the disruptions astatine EWR. One Reddit station entitled, "Newark airdrome unsafe???" successful the "r/newjersey" forum garnered implicit 1,000 reactions and hundreds of comments.

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The idiosyncratic asked, "Should I bash the unthinkable and power my EWR formation this play to JFK? however tense should we beryllium astir this?"

"I conscionable flew into Newark this greeting from New Mexico. I survived," commented 1 person.

"I flew into Newark yesterday and the delays were annoying," said a Reddit user. (Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Another idiosyncratic shared, "Just flew into EWR … Flight delayed 1 hr, checked successful bags connected a antithetic formation (2.5 hrs later) due to the fact that of level value issues, and had to beryllium pulled by a tug due to the fact that the level overshot the pitchy span by 1.5 ft."

Said different person, "I flew into Newark yesterday and the delays were annoying."

Some autobus summons income are up much than 80% twelvemonth implicit year.

A Redditor commented, "I flew retired of EWR past week and backmost yesterday. All the delays we had some times were infuriating. Never had that acquisition before. And the times conscionable kept changing. I astir changed my formation yesterday to LaGuardia oregon Trenton."

Greyhound and FlixBus person seen increases successful ridership implicit the past fewer days successful narration to the Newark Airport formation disruptions. (iStock)

"The contented is [that] aerial postulation controllers are successful request and they're precise understaffed," said 1 user. "EWR evidently has a batch of traffic, truthful I benignant of get it."

‘Bus question a captious alternative’

A spokesperson for Flix North America, the genitor institution of FlixBus and Greyhound, told Fox News Digital the institution has seen an summation successful riders.

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"We tin corroborate Flix North America has seen a 35% summation successful originating passengers astatine our Newark determination crossed some Greyhound and FlixBus wrong a span of conscionable 3 days," said the spokesperson. 

"Ticket income astatine this determination are besides up much than 80% twelvemonth implicit year."

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The spokesperson added, "We are intimately monitoring the concern and are well-prepared to invited passengers impacted by formation cancellations and delays."

The spokesperson besides said, "In times similar these, autobus question serves arsenic a captious alternative, offering travelers an affordable, accessible and dependable mode to scope their destinations."