
An equipment outage at Philadelphia TRACON delayed hundreds of flights and forced nearly 70 planes to divert from Newark and Philadelphia airports on Monday, with United Airlines waiving change fees for affected travelers.
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The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights into Newark and Philadelphia airports due to equipment issues at the Philadelphia TRACON facility, which manages air traffic for both airports.
An equipment outage on Monday delayed hundreds of flights bound for Newark, New Jersey, and Philadelphia and forced close to 70 planes to divert to other airports.
The Federal Aviation Administration halted flights into Newark Liberty International Airport, United Airlines ' busiest international hub, as well as Philadelphia International Airport and New Jersey's Teterboro Airport "due to issues with some frequencies at Philadelphia TRACON."
That Terminal Radar Approach Control, or TRACON, facility, guides planes in and out of Newark and Philadelphia.
United waived flight change fees for travelers affected by the disruption.
Roughly 250 flights in and out of Newark were delayed, more than a fifth of the day's schedule, according to FlightAware.
As of about 1 p.m. ET, 67 flights bound for Newark were forced to divert, according to Flightradar24, including international flights returning from Iceland, Greece, Spain and France.

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