At this point no airline capacity cuts really come as a surprise, though United's new flight reductions in the New York City area really put into perspective how far things have come. As of today (Sunday, April 5, 2020), United Airlines is temporarily reducing flying schedules to and from Newark and LaGuardia. They say that…
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This is so interesting, but it must be because people are not traveling to NY.
people have already left the city and as the infection rate spreads people want to stay hunkered down.
I hope that United will re-open their Newark hub after this is over.
There's plenty of airports that are served by just EWR, but i wonder if they're interpretation is that obly mainline united counts as dropping a destination and not express...
Is it possible that during this down time that they demolish EWR and start all over again? Ditto for IAH.
Given how bad it is, it’s surprising that there are still flights in/out of nyc altogether. The shortsightedness will extend the pandemic for much longer here.
What kind of article is this if u dont include the destinations???? LOL come on Ben ur better than this
The letter they posted doesn't have the list, but a quick look around suggests the following:
For LGA, it's two flights daily to ORD.
For EWR, it's the hubs -- LAX (3 flights/day), IAH (3), ORD (3), DEN (3), SFO (2), IAD (1?), LHR (1), FRA (1), and for some reason, FLL (1). I think?
Anyway, given the grim situation, I assume they left it vague because these numbers and cities are probably subject to change.
> Newark will go from 139 daily flights to 62 destinations, to 15 daily flights to nine destinations
Article says this is for 3 weeks starting on April 5th but I don't see it in the schedule yet.
For example, it looks like on April 21st:
(1) LAX - 3 flights (7 flights the next day)
(2) DEN - 3 flights
(3) IAH - 4 flights
(4) SFO - 2 flights (11 flights the next day)
(5) ORD - 5 flights
(6) MIA - 1 flight
(7) ATL - 1 flight
(8) IAD - 2 flights
(9) BOS - 2 flights
(10) DFW - 1 flight
(11) LHR - 1 flight
(12) FRA - 1 flight
(13) RSW (Ft Myers) - 1 flight
There could be more since this was a manual search. This is more than 15 daily mainline flights to nine destinations. Plus there are United Express flights on top of this.
There is "NO" essential people who still need to travel.
Just like in NYC, even "CAR WASH" is f__king essential service.
All lying about essential craps.