Flights at Newark Airport were temporarily suspended after engine failure forced a JetBlue flight to return to the airport and evacuate passengers via slides on Wednesday.
With recent travel woes out of Newark airport, flyers can take some advice from a man who has flown out of the New Jersey facility more than 8,000 times.
The facility where controllers work the airspace around Newark airport is located in Philadelphia and was already short air traffic controllers.
A man attempting to go through airport security was discovered to have been hiding a living turtle in his pants as he tried to sneak it onto the plane, authorities said.
Theresa Claiborne had her final flight with United Airlines on Thursday.
A United flight from London to Newark diverted to Bangor on Friday after the crew reported a passenger disturbance.