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What Next: TBD | The Newarkification of Flying

What Next: TBD | The Newarkification of Flying

Update: 2025-05-16
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Aging equipment and chronically understaffed air traffic control have made flying in and out of Newark’s Liberty International Airport a delay-snarled mess. And the problems there aren’t entirely unique. Will Congress and the Trump administration be the ones to fix it? 


Guest: Will Guisbond, staff reporter covering air traffic control for The Air Current


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Podcast production by Evan Campbell and Patrick Fort.



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What Next: TBD | The Newarkification of Flying

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