The small plane that crashed into a neighborhood in San Diego, California, Thursday, killing an as yet unknown number aboard, appears to have begun its doomed journey in New Jersey, officials and flight tracking data say.

After weeks of disruptions, an airline exec confirms what frequent flyers already know—travelers are changing course.

Newark airport is under fire. New Jersey Transit is on strike. And those are only the recent transit woes to hit the Garden State.

Trains are idle, the airport is hobbled and large holes have opened on a major highway. The state’s residents have time to reflect, and get mad.

US Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has ordered a reduction of traffic at the airport for the “next several weeks,” insisting that it’s safe to fly out of New Jersey’s busiest airport, despite it using an “old” system, which he previously described as being run on “copper wire and floppy disks.”

US wants airlines to cut flights at Newark to reduce ongoing woes The U.S. Transportation Department is working with airlines to cut flights at New Jersey's Newark Liberty International Airport ...

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.

Nearly 5.5 million travelers are expected to use the Port of Authority of New York & New Jersey’s airports and vehicular crossings during the