{"id":27053,"date":"2022-09-08T17:53:02","date_gmt":"2022-09-08T12:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=27053"},"modified":"2022-09-08T18:09:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-08T12:39:45","slug":"united-airlines-says-it-will-cease-flights-to-and-from-jfk-next-month-if-the-federal-government-doesnt-permit-the-carrier-to-raise-its-operations-at-new-yorks-busiest-airport-it-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/08\/united-airlines-says-it-will-cease-flights-to-and-from-jfk-next-month-if-the-federal-government-doesnt-permit-the-carrier-to-raise-its-operations-at-new-yorks-busiest-airport-it-has\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines threatens to suspend all JFK airport service | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

United Airlines says it will cease flights to and from JFK next month if the federal government doesn\u2019t permit the carrier to raise its operations at New York\u2019s busiest airport, it has been informed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The company delivered the message in a letter from United CEO Scott Kirby to acting Federal Aviation Administration <\/a><\/strong>chief Billy Nolen last week. Kirby demanded that Nolen\u2019s agency permit United to increase the number of departures and comings from Kennedy, according to an email cited by Reuters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIf we are not able to get additional allocations for multiple seasons, we will need to suspend service at John F. Kennedy International Airport<\/strong><\/a><\/strong>, effective at the end of October,\u201d Kirby wrote. The Federal Aviation Administration <\/a><\/strong>told on Tuesday that it \u201cmust consider airspace capacity and runway capacity to assess how changes would affect flights at nearby airports.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agency said that \u201cany additional slots at JFK <\/a>would follow the Federal Aviation Administration’<\/a><\/strong>s <\/a><\/strong>well-established process of awarding them fairly and to raise competition.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United has petitioned the FAA to award it more takeoff and landing authorizations at JFK \u201cso that we can develop to be more competitive.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

American and Delta<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Chicago-based carrier, which is the third-largest domestic airline behind American and Delta, told that without more permanent slots, it cannot operate out of JFK  <\/strong>\u201ceffectively compared to the larger schedules and more attractive flight times flown by our competitors,\u201d including JetBlue and American.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

United currently operates just 2 daily flights from JFK to both Los Angeles and San Francisco. Airline expert Robert Mann told the operation is too small for the carrier\u2019s threat to pull out to be \u201cmeaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the same airline that complained bitterly a couple of weeks ago about a few airline flights out of Newark destroying their whole operation, so it\u2019s a little bit ironic\u2026 to arrive out and tell we want slots that don\u2019t exist at Kennedy so we can congest that operation and\u2026 [create] more delays,\u201d Mann told The Post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a slot control at the airport, so they\u2019d either be taking slots away from someone towards United or it would mean granting new slots, which\u2026can be available to anyone not just United Airlines.\u201d In 2015, United pulled out of JFK <\/strong>and instead decided to concentrate on its local hub in Newark. When it left, it leased its 24 year-round slots to rival Delta.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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