United Airlines cutting daily flights at Newark Airport

United Airlines is cutting daily flights this summer at its Newark Liberty International Airport hub, to avoid the travel snarls that have been seen recently.

Over the July Fourth weekend, United experienced massive travel disruptions at Newark Airport amid bad weather, congestion and a shortage of air traffic controllers.

It will be cutting the number of daily flights from 410 to 390 in August. Typically, United has handled 435 flights a day at Newark.

According to data from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, United accounts for 68% of flights at the airport.

“We are now doing more than ever to mitigate the impact of weather, congestion and other infrastructure constraints at Newark and, frankly, to build a schedule at Newark that is more manageable, given the frequency of weather events and the very real operating constraints that exist there even on a blue-sky day,” United CEO Scott Kirby said during the airliner's second-quarter earnings call.

Andrew Nocella, United’s chief commercial officer, said the cuts would continue this summer “until we can come up with a creative solution to the constraints that we’re all facing there.”

“We are in constant conversation with the [Federal Aviation Administration] about Newark and its overall ability to handle capacity, and we're going to work collaboratively with them to try and figure out the overall level of flight activity,” he said.

William McGee, senior fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project, previously told NorthJersey.com and The Record that many of the airport's problems come from United Airlines' own issues in crew scheduling and its poor response to staff shortages and thunderstorms.

"It's clear United is having issues that no other airline is having, so you really can't blame the weather or the air traffic control for that, because that is on United," McGee said.

McGee said other airlines did face some delays and cancellations due to outside factors, staff shortages and thunderstorms, but not like those of United. Three of the four nationwide airports with major delays are United hubs, according to flight tracker FlightStats.

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: United Airlines cutting flights in, out of Newark Airport