Asked Sunday what he’s going to do to handle the ongoing shitshow at Newark International Airport, former MTV Real World cast member Sean Duffy told NBC’s Kristen Welker that “we actually have brought down the number of airplanes that come in and leave Newark because, listen, our mission is safety. And so – yeah, I hate delays. I hate cancellations. And I hate families who come with little kids that are sitting there for four hours. I’ve done that myself on occasion. It’s hard. But I want you to get to where you’re traveling. And if that means slowing down flights into Newark, we slow them down to make sure we can do it safely. We lost a few controllers who were stressed out by the first connectivity that we lost last week. And so we have less controllers working the Newark airspace right now. And, you know, we’re having these – these glitches in the system. So we slow it down and keep people safe. That’s what we do,” which is weird because it was supposed to be a DEI thing.
On Sunday, there was a complete ground stop at Newark, again, because the radar scopes crashed.