Some stormy weather along the coast from DC to Boston on the weekend and intermittently over the last few days, approach radar for the three DC area airports failed on Sunday for a couple hours... United's CEO is blaming FAA ATC in the New York area for causing most of the trouble on Sunday, which had caused a domino effect of problems this week.
Newark is still far and away the most ####ed airport in the world, but Chicago-O'Hare, Houston and Denver are also bad. All big United hubs.
The problem for the Calgary flights out of IAD has been flight crew availability. Flight attendants and pilots are "timing out"—hitting their max working hours—just waiting around for complete crews to fill out planes and go. As flights keep getting cancelled it means flight crews aren't where they're supposed to be either.
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