The decision to move Newark airport into the Philadelphia air traffic control zone seems to have nothing but negative consequences for safety .. New York Tracon Real Controller's Testimony: "As you probably know the EWR sector of N90 was moved to Philadelphia, PA in the summer. It was one of the hastiest, most incompetent, unsafe moves that has ever been done in our National Airspace System. What happened is three former NATCA National figures "collaborated" with the FAA to move it. (i.e. took money as consultants and other favors). The FAA has always wanted to break up N90 as it was the power center of Labor in the East Coast and undeniably the entire National Airspace System. It has been the FAA's wet dream to do it. Once NATCA was on board, all lights were green. I will spare all of the interim details, but when the FAA finally "threw the switch" and moved the sector they did so with 20% less staffing even though they said the reason for this move was to IMPROVE staffing! Instead of using existing comm infrastructure that is already in place, is redundant and safe, the FAA and NATCA National has to "pipe" the radar feed from N90 through private sector infrastructure (Verizon). These lines often have bandwidth issues which cause frequent equipment outages. Since moving to Philly, the EWR sector has had 4 equipment failures that I know of. What is the most dangerous is they are running a sector which is supposed to be staffed with 9 or 10 radar scopes, and due to low staffing they are only running TWO at times! They have had multiple "Staffing Triggers" and have told managers to lie about the real reason for the in-trail restrictions! It is an aviation disaster, or overheated TCAS waiting to happen. The FAA knows all of this. They are operating on "hope". There was too much money spent, and too many ego's on the line to admit what a colossal failure this has been. The stakeholders (United Airlines, GA at KTEB etc) were all sold one of the biggest packaged lies you will ever see in bureaucratic history. And so we see it: the system limps along "under the radar" for the most part, but when traffic picks up, bandwidth increases, and those understaffed, overworked controllers hang on. It is a disaster waiting to happen. As of yesterday, there are four LESS controllers in EWR. They went out on trauma leave after the fourth radar/radio failure in 6 weeks. So there are 11 less controllers now than there were when EWR was at N90. I would not as a customer EVER again fly out of EWR, and if I was a pilot I sure as hell would not bid any trips through EWR.”
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