Duke777

It seems construction on one of the EWR runways kicked off last Friday. Unfortunately, I've had to use EWR for UAX flight connections.

I've already had to spend one night in EWR and it seems not much will change.

How is UAX or even UA going to make EWR during runway construction? I now have no choice but to book away from UA because UAX reliability at EWR went for poor to terrible.

nova08

Man, runway construction at EWR & SFO. Two delay prone airports as it is.

EWR764

4L/22R is going to be closed through June 1, and then operating at reduced capacity through June 15. It will be fully operational through the peak summer months and then closed one final time from September 20 through 30.

When the project is complete, there will be new high-speed exits to get airplanes off the runway faster, new LED lighting and the entire length will be resurfaced. Ultimately this should allow the airport to handle arriving traffic more efficiently.

EWR can function well when visual meteorological conditions prevail as departing traffic will use 4R/22L and arrivals can be handled on 11/29. However, because 29 does not have an ILS/DME, approaches under instrument conditions must be handled on 4R/22L, making EWR effectively a single-runway airport.

lixiaojuventus

Oh, no wonder why I experienced a terrible delay >2 hours last Friday. The pilot reported the main runway was closed. I had been curious about the reason. Now I know~

weirdlyndon

Airlines were well aware of this and worked the the PANYNJ to voluntarily scale back the number of flights they operated during the construction period.

lazard

as if EWR-SFO wasn't bad enough without construction at both airports...

transportprof

I've noticed a lot more delays on flights between YVR and SFO recently. Did I miss a thread on the SFO runway construction? Can anyone point me to more details?

PV_Premier

another disguised blessing of EWR round trips being priced beyond my frugal spending limits. PHL and JFK are twice as far from where i want to end up, but half the price and 20x less the misery.

LarkSFO

There was but the mods closed it.

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...er-2014-a.html

Follow it in the hard to find San Francisco forum:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/san-f...-mid-sept.html

hindle

I arrived at EWR on Friday around 9:30pm. Took us about 25-30 minutes to wait for traffic to clear just to get to our gate. :-(

transportprof

Thanks!

I think this issue deserves a higher profile in the UA forum. Sounds like it will have significant impacts on airline operations for a long time to come, although if I read the SFO forum thread right the main closure doesn't begin until May.

love_to_travel

No wonder it took forever for my EWR-NAS flight to take-off this past Saturday.

frankmu

One of the Skywest staff at our little airport has told us to brace ourselves for a very bad summer. As if the usual summer (SFO fog) isn't bad enough.

Oxymore

Now I understand why there is a weather waiver for today at EWR only... and why my flight got cancelled

ama537621

I am now happy to fly the 747-400 from PVG-ORD instead of the 777 PVG-EWR. I never thought I would say that about flying the horrible economy class of UA 747.