Another major airport hit with massive delays after system outages and equipment failures at Newark and Atlanta

A 3rd American airdrome experienced monolithic delays this play successful the latest of a drawstring of transport setbacks.

Planes astatine the airdrome successful Austin, Texas were delayed for up to an hr and a fractional Sunday due to the fact that of chronic understaffing astatine the FAA’s aerial postulation power tower, reported KUT News.

Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has small much than fractional of the aerial postulation controllers the authorities says it's expected to have.

As of January, lone 32 of the required 60 positions were filled astatine Austin's airport, staffing records showed. 

This follows large problems Newark Airport, which has been deed with monolithic delays for 2 weeks.

The incidents are the latest successful a agelong enactment of disasters that the Trump medication blames connected 'antiquated' FAA systems. 

However, the MAGA president ordered that hundreds of aerial postulation controller beryllium fired successful February. 

Radar screens went acheronian astatine the New York City country hub aboriginal Friday during a adjacent telephone that astir became a midair disaster.

Separately, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International issued a crushed halt connected Mother's Day owed to instrumentality failure.

The nightmare delays successful the Texas capitol delays lasted for astir 3 hours Sunday until the understaffed controllers were capable to get a grip connected traffic. 

Incoming flights were impacted by the staffing, the FAA confirmed to the Austin American Statesman. 

Even earlier the play problems, the section Democratic Congressman slammed the Trump administration's nonaccomplishment to adequately unit postulation power towers.

'With existent aerial postulation controller staffing astatine our airdrome nether 50%, Austin has 1 of the astir terrible shortages successful the country,' tweeted Rep. Lloyd Doggett past week.

'To amended information successful our skies, we indispensable beryllium amended prioritized by the FAA. The Trump Admin's caller program fails to adequately present for our region.'