EWR radios and radar fail again

jtrain609 said:
I had the honor and privilege of operating one of those extra segments for the return, so it's being done in both directions.
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Soul Brotha' said:
A friend of mine was operating a MCO-EWR leg a few days ago. A crazy long EDCT so the company said ‘eff it and sent them to JFK and got buses to transport them to EWR.
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If only someone had told them about the runway closure, maybe this could have been the original plan rather than the contingency plan… :)
 
This is both on the airlines and the FAA. Airlines are for-profit businesses, as they conveniently forget when they’re trying to pretend that they’re public transportation to get government subsidies. They use taxpayer funded infrastructure and services to make money. They should accept reasonable regulation to allow fair and even usage of said items. It’s pretty well known how many planes an hour can use a piece of pavement and yet the airlines cram more than that in because it makes more money to use 3 subcontracted RJs instead of one of their planes and run a schedule that melts down whenever there’s weather (because it’s still more profitable even with meltdowns). The FAA’s the only government regulator that has in their mission promoting the same thing they’re regulating. They need to just regulate and do a better job of it. Maybe in a few years they will, but even if voters do better I doubt there’ll be major change in the direction of the FAA.
 
I mean, the FAA was threatening the move to Philly since Trump's first administration. This is upper level career bureaucrats that hold the blame for this one. Sure the Biden administration could have stopped it, but they were getting bad advice.
 
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