The Federal Aviation Administration issued an interim order Tuesday limiting the number of incoming and departing flights at Newark Liberty International Airport, which has faced national scrutiny due to critical outages caused by staffing shortages and decades-old infrastructure.

The FAA is scaling back flights at Newark Liberty International Airport, imposing new limits to reduce the ripple effect of delays across the country’s air traffic network. Starting May 20, the Federal Aviation Administration will cap hourly flight operations at Newark to 28 arrivals and 28

The interim rule will cap the number of arrivals and departures at Newark Liberty International Airport at 28 apiece per hour. That’s in line with the limits imposed after about half a dozen controllers went on a 45-day trauma leave following the first outage on April 28.

After multiple air traffic control outages, the number of flights coming in and out of Newark Liberty International Airport will be reduced by about 25 percent. A new FAA order will limit the airport to 28 arrivals and 28 departures per hour for now.

The Federal Aviation Administration is cutting the number of departures and arrivals at Newark Liberty International Airport.

Controllers handling aircraft headed into Newark Liberty International Airport lost radio frequencies for approximately 2 seconds, said the FAA

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