Key Takeaways Federal officials put a cap on flights in and out of New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport in an effort to ease major flight delays and cancellations that have plagued the airport for weeks.

While the AAA expects a record number of domestic fliers, the number of travelers flying locally, including through Newark Airport, has dropped this holiday weekend compared to this same time last year.

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

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,

United Airlines is letting customers change flights for free as flight delays and cancellations continue to grow at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.

A meeting to discuss reducing the number of flights at Newark Liberty International Airport resumed Friday in the wake of critical air traffic control problems around the metro New York hub and other US airports.

Newsday spoke to experts who said that the direct cause of Newark’s blackout was unique, but the region's other airports like Long Island MacArthur, LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy face some of the same underlying issues — like dated equipment and a long-term shortage of air traffic controllers.