United Airlines Holdings Inc. will reduce 35 daily round trips to Newark Liberty International Airport after the failures of Federal Aviation Administration technology and a shortage of air traffic controller has groaned flights for a full week.
The “FAA challenges to be extinguished for a long time have boiled this week,” the head of management of United said on Friday, Scott Kirby, in a letter to customers, causing cancellations, delays and blocked passengers. At the same time, more than 20% of Newark controllers have left work, he said. In a Friday declaration, the FAA blamed the problems of construction and endowment of the breads for the problems.
United will start to eliminate flights this weekend, Kirby said.
This decision marks a longtime climbing of Kirby's long -standing criticisms on the management of operations by FAA in Newark, the largest center of the airline for international departures and a primary gateway for domestic flights. The failures of aging the air traffic equipment and the persistent challenges of the staff endowment have caused numerous disturbances of flights in recent years, and delays or cancellations can stop across the entire United Network.
Kirby asked the American transport service to impose more difficult slot restrictions at the airport, a designation that would limit the number of authorized flights more.
“It is disappointing to make other cuts at an already reduced schedule in Newark, but as there is no way to solve the short -term FAA structural endowment problems, we think there is no other choice to protect our customers,” Kirby said in the letter.
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