Originally Posted by Lux Flyer

EWR:
-Adjusting some flying away from peak hours
-Additional A gates becoming available will reduce gate availability issues
-Adjusting schedule to reisolate EWR more from
the system (more in-out flying)
-Can’t reduce schedule too much as others airlines just fill in with their flights (going to be around 390 daily fligjts in August vs. original plan of 410 vs. normal summer schedule of 435)
-more mainline flying, decreased RJ to result in capacity growth (also contributed to June disruptions as mainline was more heavily impacted whereas in past it would have been resolved via RJ cancellations)
-end of June disruptions led to 1% capacity loss for the quarter (disruptions already accounted for in Q3/full year outlook)
-Aggresive cancellations decisions going forward when FAA needs to close routes. Can’t be diverting flights as it causes far more disruption than cancellations. (Compared last weekend vs end of June - 77% fewer cancellations due to strategy change)
Crew scheduling:
-working to update technology and working with union to allow communication via their electeonic devices vs. the current phone call requirement