Originally Posted by
gold23
Completly agree. Wish we could- unmovable annual business event I need to present at the prior day, and a breakfast I'm speaking at the morning of departure. I'm not particularly worried about t-storms in a normal environment. I have enough layover cushion to deal with hour long delays. What I worry about is cancellation by UA due to being overwhelmed in any type of minor IRROP situation in EWR.
I'd personally avoid EWR at all costs right now, and take my chances with ORD and IAD. IAD is probably the best bet, IMO. IAD also has a fair number of options to Europe if something happened to cause a misconnect. The 10pm bank of flights to Europe is a good backup.