Rep. Payne, Jr. Attacks Flight Delays at Newark Liberty Airport

Rep. Payne, Jr. Attacks Flight Delays at Newark Liberty Airport

Washington, D.C. — Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. wants to speed up vacation by Newark Liberty International Airport to get ready for the amplified airplane targeted traffic just after COVID-19. The Congressman wrote a letter to Steve Dickson, Administrator for the Federal Aviation Administration, and asked him to support guidelines to minimize congestion at the airport, which prospects the country in flight delays.

“Airline traffic is beginning to increase as much more Americans get vaccinated and come to feel protected on commercial flights once again,” mentioned Rep. Donald M. Payne, Jr. “But enhanced site visitors could signify amplified congestion if we are not careful. I want Newark Liberty Intercontinental Airport to return to usual without having the delays that passengers seasoned ahead of this world wide pandemic.”

The letter was co-signed by every member of the New Jersey Property Delegation. It mentioned that the avoidance of “congestion and delays at Newark is of critical relevance to the extended-expression restoration of not only New Jersey and the NYC-metro region but of the country as a complete.” It continued that delays and gridlock induced $33 billion in “lost financial productivity” to the Newark metropolitan area as well as substantial environmental expenditures from the fumes of ready airplanes.

The full letter is beneath.

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May well 20, 2021

The Honorable Steve Dickson

Administrator

Federal Aviation Administration

800 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, DC 20591

Dear Administrator Dickson:

As we search ahead to travelers returning to the skies in significant numbers, we have fears about the return of anything no a single has missed all through the pandemic — air-travel gridlock, notably at Newark Liberty Global Airport (EWR).

Blocking congestion and delays at Newark is of important relevance to the prolonged-phrase restoration of not only New Jersey and the NYC-metro area but of the country as a whole. We take pleasure in the Office of Transportation and its Federal Aviation Administration’s steps to preserve pre-pandemic congestion and hold off mitigations at Newark through the Winter 2021-2022 scheduling time, like retaining EWR’s peak-hrs movement cap and employment of its historic-precedence scheduling construction. We also persuade the FAA to enforce these actions long phrase to ensure effective administration of congestion and delays to assistance the requires and interest of the traveling general public.

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, delays at EWR ended up the worst in the nation, typically with just about a 3rd of its flights impacted — even on days with no inclement temperature.^[1] These delays triggered billions of dollars in lost financial efficiency and sizeable time losses to EWR prospects. Put together with other loss-expense groups, these impacts of Newark’s delays contributed drastically to overall financial losses due to air-journey gridlock of roughly $33 billion in 2019 for the country as a total.^[2] Air-vacation congestion and delays also have a deleterious effect on the ecosystem. More time flight routings and idling-aircraft emissions are minimized with powerful congestion management. Plainly, EWR’s pre-pandemic status quo remaining sizeable home for advancement.

Newark Liberty Global Airport connects New Jersey and the full metro region with the environment economy, serving a wide variety of worldwide places, massive and smaller, while (prior to the pandemic) driving practically $16 billion of economic exercise in New Jersey by yourself and supporting close to 100,000 New Jersey careers. We want to make certain that the financial activity and restoration Newark Liberty Intercontinental Airport gives is unencumbered from the troubles and limitations that delays and congestion will develop.

As travel need returns, the FAA should really make certain its insurance policies preserve Newark’s historic world wide and domestic connectivity, while protecting against gridlock. We urge the FAA to implement EWR’s congestion and hold off mitigation guidelines in order to assist an orderly return to Newark’s robust pre-pandemic operations, and to go after additional possibilities to more cut down air-targeted visitors delays so that EWR will not just “bounce back” but will “build again better” than it functioned prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sincerely,

Donald M. Payne, Jr.

Member of Congress

Christopher H. Smith Frank Pallone, Jr.