Newark Airport opened its new Terminal A this morning, but take off didn't go as smoothly as travelers would hope. jennamdeangelis reports:
Officials said a power outage knocked out half of the security checkpoints during the morning rush, and there were two issues with people at check-in.
"TSA went down a number of times, alarms been going off in this building. The communication over the intercom, you cannot hear when they make announcements, Total, total chaos," Paterson resident Abby Hatch said."We changed gates at least five times, only to find out now that the flight that eventually is leaving, as a result, we would have missed our connecting flight."opened Thursday, part of a $2.7 billion redevelopment program.
"We'll work out the kinks, but stepping back, this is a magnificent facility. It's going to serve a much larger audience. We're thrilled to be here, and I hope people can overlook the one or two problems," said Port Authority Chairman Kevin O'Toole.
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