The Federal Aviation Administration is considering temporary flight reductions in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport, and it's launching a safety task force.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Tuesday defended moving Newark Liberty International Airport’s airspace control to Philadelphia in a statement released in the wake of recent turmoil in the airport’s operations.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy says a new software update prevented a third radar outage over the last two weeks at New Jersey's busy Newark airport when a telecommunications line failed again over the weekend.

Staff shortages and equipment failures at Newark Liberty International Airport have raised safety concerns in recent weeks.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy keeps going on TV and insisting it’s safe to fly in and out of Newark Liberty Airport in New Jersey, despite a string of extremely frightening outages and workforce shortages recently. But Duffy has now admitted he changed a flight booked for his wife on Monday so that she wouldn’t have to travel through Newark.

The airline told the Sun the e-mail was sent to passengers who have upcoming flights to or through Newark’s airport, as well as its MileagePlus

Sen. Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, said the FAA is not being transparent enough after visiting air traffic controllers in Philadelphia and Newark.