I’m a pilot — here’s the disastrous truth about flying out of Newark Airport

It’s conscionable a plane pain. 

Delays, cancellations and air-traffic trauma. These plagues person each contributed to the ongoing chaos of flying retired of Newark Liberty International Airport. 

And this dreamy wingman says nan nightmare is acold from over. 

“Holy cow, is that a disaster,” griped aviator Pete Cappio, a Big Apple aviator and “Bachelorette” alum, of his caller departure from nan NYC-area aerial station. 

Offering his 162,000 TikTok followers a sneak peek astatine nan level pandemonium, Cappio, 35, shared visuals featuring a cluster of craft waiting to return disconnected from Newark’s tarmac. 

But soft sailing retired of Newark — deemed a “travel hellhole” by disappointment predominant flyers complete nan past fewer weeks — has go virtually impossible. The disarray is mostly owed to a drawstring of air-traffic power outages, building issues and Federal Aviation Administration employees stepping disconnected nan occupation owed to malfunctioning equipment. 

The ongoing tumult forced nan FAA to denote a melodramatic cut to nan number of flights permitted to travel successful and retired of Newark for nan adjacent respective months. 

Luckily for Cappio, endearingly known arsenic Pilot Pete online, he made it retired by nan hairsbreadth of his chopped chin. 

“Here’s a unrecorded look astatine really galore airplanes I had to hold down anterior to takeoff,” nan millennial moaned successful his viral vid. 

“We were No. 27 for takeoff, and that’s for aggregate reasons,” he continued, adding that nan “biggest” blockage was a closed runway undergoing reconstruction. 

“Every hose has to return disconnected and onshore connected a parallel runway, and it causes a backup bigger than I’ve ever seen earlier astatine Newark,” complained Cappio. 

“Unbelievable,” he said. “It took america 57 minutes, from push backmost to takeoff, down each these airplanes.”

Still, nan airman applauded Newark’s remaining aerial postulation controllers for doing their champion nether immoderate of nan worst conditions. 

“Excellent job,” he raved. “Super, ace skilled getting airplanes airborne arsenic quickly arsenic imaginable while dealing pinch airplanes coming successful to land.”

Cappio went connected to guarantee trippers that catching a formation to aliases from nan beleaguered hub is “super safe” — but besides advised folks to “expect delays” and “possible cancellations.”

“Crazy, crazy happenings astatine Newark Airport.”