FAA Moves to Bolster Newark Airspace Strained by Failures

The US aviation regulator plans to upgrade technology infrastructure and staffing levels for air-traffic controllers that oversee flights bound for Newark Liberty International Airport after a critical outage led to more than week of severe flight disruptions.

Three new high-bandwidth data connections will be added to provide more reliability and redundancy between control systems in New York and Philadelphia that handle air traffic at Newark Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement on Wednesday.