United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby announced on May 2 that the airline was "unilaterally" cutting 35 daily roundtrips from its Newark schedule after several air traffic controllers went on medical leave following the April 28 outage. Newark often has 80 or more flights per hour, Kirby noted in the statement, calling the number unsustainable. ????? ??
The move would
Additionally, the FAA will be meeting with airlines on Wednesday to discuss potential flight reductions at the Newark, he said, echoing an announcement made last week by the FAA. The move would be an effort to reduce ongoing flight delays to and from the airport. ????????????
between New York
"The goal is to add three new telecommunications lines between New York and Philadelphia," Duffy added. "This will provide more high-speed reliability and redundancy -- so if one goes down, we're assured that the others will stand up." ?????
For that reason
For that reason he said that the FAA has replaced copper lines with fiber lines at Newark, along with New York City's LaGuardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport. ????? ???????
The system
"The system is so old that even when you have high-speed fiber information coming in ... the information has to be slowed down, it comes in too fast," Duffy said, saying that the information could only travel at "the speed of copper wires." ????????????