Transportation Dept. works to boost air traffic control workforce as United cuts flights

United Airlines cut 35 round-trip flights a day from Newark Liberty International Airport, outside New York City, with the airline’s CEO blaming failed air traffic control technology and understaffing. United CEO Scott Kirby said in a letter to customers late last week that “long-simmering FAA challenges boiled over” before his airline pulled the flights. Dozens of flights were diverted, and hundreds were delayed and canceled in recent days because of technology failures at the