United Airlines issued a "flexibility" travel waiver that allows passengers traveling to and from the Newark Airport to reschedule their trip without any additional fees. ????? ???????

Kirby continued, "It's disappointing to make further cuts to an already reduced schedule at Newark, but since there is no way to resolve the near-term structural FAA staffing issues, we feel like there is no other choice in order to protect our customers." ????????????  

This particular air traffic control facility has been chronically understaffed for years and without these controllers, it's now clear -- and the FAA tells us -- that Newark airport cannot handle the number of planes that are scheduled to operate there in the weeks and months ahead," United CEO Scott Kirby wrote in a letter to customers. "United is

United Airlines removed 35 round-trip flights per day to help ease congestion and lessen the impact on its customers. As of 3:30 p.m. Monday, flights were arriving four hours delayed on average into Newark. ????? ???????  

Flight cancellations have increased at Newark in the wake of the outage, according to data from Cirium, an aviation analytics company. Since April 26, an average of 39 flights per day have been canceled, compared to an average of four flights per day canceled in April, according to Cirium. On-time performance has also degraded; Newark departures we