Overview

• United reports its best summer ever at Newark, saying more than six million passengers arrived on time and on-time performance matched or exceeded JFK and LaGuardia.
• The FAA curbed operations to about 68 flights per hour in May to ease congestion and has tentatively capped Newark at 72 per hour through summer 2026.
• Federal steps included a temporary satellite backup, new fiber-optic links, expanded high-bandwidth telecom, and additional controllers to stabilize the approach facility.
• Runway work ended June 2 after spring disruptions that included an April 28 outage cutting radio contact for 30 seconds and radar for 90 seconds, with staffing at 24 certified controllers versus a target of 38 in April.
• United plans service to 160-plus destinations from Newark with new flights to Rome, Venice, Porto, Marrakesh, Dublin and several U.S. cities, expects to hire more than 2,500 local employees by 2026, and will buy up to 1 million gallons of SAF for use at EWR this year.