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Sure flights headed to Colorado, Texas and California airports are experiencing delays because of unfavorable climate circumstances on Memorial Day, in response to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
As of 9 a.m. ET Monday morning, there’s a Visitors Administration Program in impact for planes arriving at Denver Worldwide Airport because of climate, inflicting some arriving flights to be delayed a mean of half-hour, in response to an replace from the FAA’s Air Visitors Management System Command Middle.
The FAA additionally issued an advisory for flights heading to Dallas Fort Value Worldwide Airport in Texas, that are being delayed for practically an hour on common because of climate and thunderstorms. Planes headed to San Francisco Worldwide Airport are additionally at the moment experiencing delays averaging 28 minutes, in response to a separate discover.
This comes as 45.1 million individuals will journey at the very least 50 miles from house over the Memorial Day vacation interval, a rise of 1.4 million vacationers in comparison with final yr, and notching a brand new Memorial Day weekend file.
NEWARK AIRPORT HIT WITH NEW DELAYS, OUTAGE HEARD ON AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL AUDIO
Vacationers at a Transportation Safety Administration safety checkpoint contained in the Jeppesen Terminal at Denver Worldwide Airport in Denver on Saturday, Aug. 19, 2023. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
In the meantime, there continues to be an onslaught of delays impacting visitors out and in of Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in New Jersey. Final week, simply forward of the bustling vacation weekend, the FAA issued an interim order decreasing flight arrivals and departures till development on one in all its runways ends on June 15.
There’ll solely be 28 arrivals and 28 departures each hour underneath the interim order. There will probably be 34 arrivals and departures by means of the tip of October.
“Our objective is to alleviate the substantial inconvenience to the touring public from extreme flight delays because of development, staffing challenges, and up to date gear points, which enlarge as they unfold by means of the Nationwide Airspace System,” Appearing FAA Administrator Chris Rocheleau stated.
NEWARK AIRPORT ‘ONE OF MANY VOLCANOES WAITING TO ERUPT,’ PILOT SAYS
In current weeks, passengers have confronted several-hour delays and tons of of canceled or delayed flights at Newark due partly to air visitors management outages.

A United Airways airplane takes off at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in entrance of the skyline of Decrease Manhattan and One World Commerce Middle in New York Metropolis on Feb. 20, 2025 in Newark, New Jersey. (Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
The air visitors management system has been underneath immense stress for years, given the persisting staffing shortages, outdated expertise and underinvestment in vital infrastructure. These shortfalls got here into focus in current weeks as New Jersey’s Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport, the second-busiest airport within the New York airport system, confronted back-to-back points.

Vacationers wait to board a Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplane operated by United Airways at Newark Liberty Worldwide Airport in Newark, New Jersey, on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. ( Bing Guan/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
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Except for the longstanding points with the air visitors management system, Newark’s challenges have been additional strained by ongoing development on the airport, which leaves it briefly working with solely one in all two parallel runways.