NEWARK AIRPORT Ground Stop on LDW - News 12 NJ

live from terminal B with more on what's going on there Kimberly good evening yes so many questions surrounding this ground delay and of course it's not what we expected right Labor Day weekend it always is a bustling travel time for airports I'm going to show you what Spirit Airlines looks like right now we're in terminal B this is a lot of delays people are going to be standing around for quite some time this radar issue is causing delays that have kept people in the air for over an hour longer than planned as well as pushing flights off schedule or even canceled for the remainder of the night new Yark airport posted to X today saying that the FAA equipment outages have caused these flight disruptions it's become a ripple effect for Flyers who would like to return home in time for work tomorrow we were in the air and we were told that there was a radar an issue with the radar and there was a radar outage so that we would have to keep circling we were coming in from Santa Domingo and so we had to circle around Baltimore for about an hour waiting to come in but they said all the flights were backed up I think we're just lucky that it actually came on and it's not it's just backed up now instead of it's still out what a great attitude and Newark Airport apologized for the issue on that social media post and they asked that if you are planning on flying tonight to be sure to arrive early and check your flight status before arrive driving to make the night a little smoother for you that's the latest at Newark Airport Kimberly Buck news12 New Jersey all right a lot of