NEW JERSEY (PIX11) – Newark Liberty International Airport will have limited flight departures through at least the fall, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said on Wednesday.

Usually, Newark Airport has between 50-54 departures per hour. The airport is currently only facilitating around 28 departures per hour because of staffing issues, runway construction and technology glitches, Duffy said at a news conference.

Ongoing runway construction is scheduled to be complete by June 15, at which point the airport can ramp up departures to about 34 per hour. But without more staffing, the airport won’t return to normal volume until at least the fall, according to Duffy.

“When the new runway comes online June 15, we’re going to bump that from 28 to 34. It’s going to stay that way until October,

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