Originally Posted by
transportprof
Why so strange? Today is a public holiday in NY & NJ - Columbus Day. United often pares its flights down on holidays.
Actually, the flight date was THU 10/5 not today.
And a narrowbody into/out of ZRH, such as this one to EWR is not the norm at all. 764s usually are running ZRH-EWR/IAD, as they are today.