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Sean Duffy: “At 28 an hour, it's going to go to 34 an hour when the new…”

Featuring: Sean Duffy, Republican | Secretary of Transportation | National

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Sean Duffy and FAA Deputy Administrator Discuss Newark Airport Upgrades and Air Traffic Control Challenges

Published | Video Starts at 19:58

… is a flight capacity that the airport can handle with the number of controllers that we have. So what you were seeing before was a number of delays and cancellations. At 28 an hour, it's going to go to 34 an hour when the new Runway comes online. That is a number of flights that, that air traffic control can handle. And so if you book, you, I think you're going to fly in Newark, you're not going to see what you saw a couple weeks ago. (19:58–20:04)

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Asserts that flight capacity at Newark will increase from 28 to 34 per hour with a new runway.

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