{"id":963532,"date":"2026-07-28T00:27:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/963532\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:27:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:27:54","slug":"new-york-area-flights-delayed-by-staffing-shortages-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/963532\/","title":{"rendered":"New York-area flights delayed by staffing shortages, weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 <\/strong>Air traffic control staffing shortages disrupted flights at the three major airports serving the New York metropolitan area on Monday, according to advisories from the US Federal Aviation Administration.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The FAA in <a href=\"https:\/\/nasstatus.faa.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">its advisories<\/a> said it expected the New York market to experience travel issues throughout the evening.<\/p>\n<p>The agency temporarily halted flights into John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. <\/p>\n<p>As of late afternoon, arrivals into JFK were experiencing the worst delays, with average wait times topping two hours. <\/p>\n<p>The FAA slowed flights into John F. Kennedy, LaGuardia, Newark and Philadelphia International airports because of severe weather and staffing constraints, the agency said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p>The FAA has faced a longstanding air traffic controller shortage that it\u2019s tried to resolve by offering <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/briefing-room\/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-new-package-boost-air-traffichttps:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/briefing-room\/us-transportation-secretary-sean-p-duffy-unveils-new-package-boost-air-traffic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">incentives<\/a>, such as bonuses for academy graduates assigned to hard-to-staff facilities. The FAA and Transportation Department also kicked off a campaign earlier this year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-10\/us-government-pitches-gamers-a-career-as-air-traffic-controllers\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">targeting video gamers<\/a> for the job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 Air traffic control staffing shortages disrupted flights at the three major airports serving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":963533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[159057,5229,154416,7833,405,403,154464,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,313],"class_list":["post-963532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-air-traffic-control","tag-america","tag-jfk-airport","tag-laguardia-airport","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newark-airport","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116994775824125608","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/963533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}