I’m pretty sure we can be good at flying airplanes while also irritated at Newark’s gate and schedule mismanagement. I can also be polite to our passengers and show empathy toward them during the absurd wait for a gate while not personally taking responsibility for it.

It appears that United is trying to get the FAA involved with slot times and enforcing the 79 events per hour restriction on Jet Blue and Spirit. This might prevent some holding or extended taxiing to takeoff delays, but I’m not sure this will have a bit of impact on our gates being occupied most of the time when we arrive at Newark. I thinks it’s interesting that the JB/Spirit response is that United scheduling incompetence is the reason for delays (probably some truth to that) or possibly intentionally sabotaging the EWR operation to make a point (can’t imagine that’s true or a good strategy, although at this point it’s so bad this might explain a lot…)