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United Airlines on Thursday shared more information about its plans to fix its Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) hub. The airport saw a rash of cancellations at the end of June<\/a> amid an operational meltdown following severe weather.<\/p>\n Speaking during the airline’s second-quarter earnings conference call, CEO Scott Kirby said the airline was doing “more than ever” to mitigate the “very real operating constraints that exist” at the airport regardless of the weather.<\/p>\n Want more airline-specific news? Sign up for TPG’s free biweekly Aviation newsletter<\/a>.<\/b><\/p>\n The airline will follow four “new initiatives” to improve the New York operation, airline president Brett Hart said. It will reduce the total number of flights and move some scheduled flights to off-peak hours; open six new gates in Terminal A; adjust aircraft schedules to have more aircraft operate “out and back” instead of following a line of flying on a given day, thus avoiding a cascade of disruptions throughout the rest of its network; and start “increasing our resources” in crew scheduling and accelerating the introduction of various automated and tech-based tools.<\/p>\n The airline is also continuing to lobby for a Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization bill that “equips the FAA with the resources, tools and funding they need,” Hart said. He was referring partly to an ongoing air traffic controller shortage<\/a> that has slowed the airspace around New York City this summer.<\/p>\n Executives were otherwise fairly quiet on details. However, they noted that while a typical summer sees 435 flights per day from Newark, it plans to get that down to about 390 by August.<\/p>\n