When I called up Will Guysbond, I wanted to know if passengers flying in or out of Newark Airport these days would notice anything different.

I think the biggest thing you're probably going to notice are a lot more delays.

Will writes for the air current, and he covers air traffic control.

If you've paid attention to the news at all lately, I know that there have been a lot of

staffing and equipment issues at Newark that have really constrained the airport's ability

to operate. United Airlines executives are trying to reassure their customers.

It is safe to fly at Newark as widespread cancellations and air traffic control issue spark

concerns.

Air traffic control screens have gone dark multiple times in the past two weeks.

Now the FAA is asking airlines to cut down on flights to reduce delays.

The airport is so short on air traffic control staffing.

Flights again were delayed this morning, according to the FAA.

New work for anyone who kind of is following aviation is historically a chronically delayed airport.

That's not new.

The one you start to add in radar outages and

telecommunications issues and air traffic controller staffing constraints, it really becomes

a mess, frankly. And for folks flying through the airport, that means your flight might be delayed,

your flight might be canceled. Your flight might leave the gate and you might sit there taxi into the runway for hours to only return to the gate.

So things are in flux right now for sure.

Then there's what passengers don't see.

You know, you've got this confluence of really interesting issues.

Some that are unique to Newark, some that are happening across the country.

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