Duffy held a press conference Monday afternoon, after the FAA imposed the latest of several recent ground delays at EWR. The FAA said they had been “slowing arrivals and departures” there “due to runway construction at Newark and staffing and technology issues at Philadelphia TRACON, which guides aircraft in and out of the airport.”
Duffy noted that it was the Biden administration that moved the TRACON (Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities) from New York to Philadelphia, and said he was calling for an Office of the Inspector General investigation into this and other decisions.
However:
The move happened under the Trump administration. Either they were too inept to stop it or chose to let it happen in order to blame the Biden admin. That said, EWR is a mess even on a good day, so short staffing and runway construction would have been nasty to begin with.
March 2024, the article date, is while Biden was still president. Trump got elected in November 2024 and did not become president until January 20, 2025 at noon.
I can’t stand Trump but this TRACON move to Philly was done on Biden’s watch (and that of SecTrans Buttigieg and VP Harris.}
Uh huh?
You’re looking at the first article. The second was published last year.
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