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United Airlines wants the US government to manage the crowds at Newark Liberty
International Airport. Due to repairs to a runway, there have been long
aircraft traffic jams since July 6.
 
United boss Scott Kirby has written a letter asking Secretary of
Transportation Pete Buttigieg and the chief of the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), Steve Dickson, to "temporarily and proportionally reduce
the number of flights per hour," Reuters news agency reported.
 
Kirby believes United has been disproportionately hit in the number of flights
it has had to cancel at Newark. Nevertheless, he does not threaten to transfer
flights to other New York airports such as JFK or LaGuardia.
 
Newark was in the top 15 busiest US airports last year, in terms of
passengers. Currently, the airport is struggling with serious flight delays,
long taxi times and many cancellations. United uses the New Jersey airport as
its hub, accounting for about 65 percent of all flights to Newark.
 
In the letter, Kirby writes that all airlines together had to cancel "more
than 100 flights a day" in July, which puts a lot of pressure on employees and
schedules. United is now canceling 70 of Newark's 240 daily flights. Before
the pandemic, that was about 430 flights a day.
 
The FAA is "studying the letter and will address United with an immediate
response."

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