Last week was a tough one for Newark Liberty International Airport. May 2 marked the fifth day in a row with significant delays and cancellations, with an equipment outage, staffing shortages and construction contributing.
The delays have been so bad that United Airlines is “unilaterally canceling 35 roundtrip flights per day from our Newark schedule starting this weekend,” CEO Scott Kirby wrote in a letter to customers on May 2 that was published on United’s website. Newark is a United hub.
“In the past few days, on more than one occasion, technology that FAA air traffic controllers rely on to manage the airplanes coming in and out of Newark airport failed — resulting in dozens of diverted flights, hundreds of delayed and canceled…