United Airlines will cancel 70 flights per day at New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport due to malfunctions in the air traffic control system and a chronic shortage of controllers, CEO Scott Kirby has revealed.
In recent days, hundreds of flights have been canceled or delayed. Twenty percent of the chronically understaffed controllers have retired, worsening technical issues, and it has become clear that the planned number of flights cannot be managed over the coming weeks to months.
Flights to and from Newark had already been reduced, but further reductions have been implemented. Newark is one of United Airlines’ hubs, connecting 76 cities in the United States and 81 cities overseas.
