A 45-minute ground stop was ordered on Sunday morning by the FAA following the outage at Newark’s air traffic control facility, officials told WABC.

It comes after a radar malfunction on Friday morning brought Newark to a standstill briefly on Friday morning.

The number of flights in and out of the airport will be reduced for the “next several weeks,” Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” following travel chaos triggered by a shortage of air traffic controllers.

“We want to have a number of flights that if you book your flight, you know it’s going to fly, right?” he said.

A meeting with all airlines flying out of Newark Liberty International is expected to be called this week to determine the reduction, Duffy added.

United operates 75% of the air traffic at the New Jersey hub.

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