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United's move comes a month after it wrote a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration complaining that anwas"creating a crisis" at the airport, CNN reports. On June 17, the agency responded by granting the airline the right to temporarily drop some of its flights due to concerns the carrier expressed over construction and air traffic control staffing, according to Reuters.
"After the last few weeks of irregular operations in Newark, caused by many factors including airport construction, we reached out to the FAA and received a waiver allowing us to temporarily adjust our schedule there for the remainder of the summer,", executive vice president and Chief Operations Officer for United Airlines, said in a company memo on June 23.
However, he added:"We do not anticipate any schedule changes at our other six domestic hubs this summer."unrelated to the staffing or aircraft shortages that led the carrier to make its previous cuts.
from its schedule from July 1 through Aug. 7 to help avoid scheduling snarls."This will build additional resilience in our system and improve operational reliability for our customers and employees; we'll continue to proactively adjust select flights in the coming weeks," the company wrote in a press release, The Points Guy reported.
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