Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy detailed his plan to update Newark Liberty International Airport‘s infrastructure to address recent outages, blaming the Biden administration for the current problems.

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

The CEO of United Airlines maintains that New Jersey's Newark Airport is safe, despite construction, equipment failures and staffing issues that have resulted in delayed and canceled flights, NBC News' Marquise Francis reports.

CHICAGO (Reuters) -United Airlines is facing a financial hit and potential long-term reputational harm as flight delays and cancellations pile up due to ongoing disruptions at Newark airport - one of its largest hubs and among the busiest in the country.

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.

Blank radar screens. Broken air traffic equipment. Flights in an out of Newark Airport delayed or canceled. Is it safe to fly here?

Travel woes at Newark Airport continued Monday after a weekend featuring another radar outage, a ground stop and dozens of flight cancellations and delays. The FAA announced Newark was operating on a ground delay program,

The shortage on Monday forced the F.A.A. to delay flights to the busy airport for up to nearly seven hours, the latest problem to plague the airport.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Monday that “fast-track” fixes are being made to address the continuing communications and radar failures at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Democratic candidates for New Jersey governor sparred on the issues at a debate Monday night. In a debate hosted by NJ PBS and WNYC, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, Jersey City Steve Fulop, Rep. Josh Gottheimer,