A communications outage that impacted Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday occurred just as the Labor Day weekend travel push ramps up. TSA is bracing for record-setting travel and the FAA forecasts the busiest Labor Day in 15 years.

The FAA says it's investigating the latest episode at the same Philadelphia area air traffic control facility that had major outages earlier this year. The outage — which occurred despite the installation of newly upgraded communications lines — resulted in hundreds of delays.

"It was a little disappointing, but I think 30 minutes isn't as bad as it could be, as we've experienced with this summer," said traveler Emily O'Sullivan.

To address the issue, additional air traffic control upgrades were promised on Wednesday by U.S. Transpor

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