Staff are burnt out — and very concerned about safety and feel very strongly that those moved to Philadelphia should come back to this facility,” Gillen said.

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy requested the audit to see if the move had a role in communications and radar outages at the Newark airport this spring.

Federal audit ordered to review FAA's controversial transfer of air traffic controllers from New York to Philadelphia.

A federal watchdog is launching an audit into why a dozen air traffic controllers were moved from New York to Philadelphia last year​.

A federal watchdog is launching an audit into why a dozen air traffic controllers were moved from New York to Philadelphia last year. It's being welcomed by workers and lawmakers alike in the wake of two serious air traffic outages this spring over Newark's airspace.