Secretary Sean Duffy Asked: When Are Passengers Going To See A Change In Flight Booking Options At Newark?

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During Monday’s press briefing at Newark Airport, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy was asked about flight booking options.

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00:00All right, we're happy to take any of the questions you may have for us.

00:04Yes?

00:07So when are passengers really going to see a change or a difference in volume and the ability to book more flights and options, things like that?

00:20So I'll take a crack at that. If I get it wrong, Chris will tell me.

00:23So we're at 28 flights an hour right now.

00:27Once the runway gets certified, we're going to increase that to 34 flights an hour.

00:33So you're going to start to see that, and that's going to be the 9th or 10th.

00:36We think it's going to be certified, so a little over a week.

00:40And so then you'll have more capacity coming out of this airport.

00:45And we're going to hold that then for the summer.

00:47We're not going to reevaluate the number of flights per hour until we get to October.

00:52I'll just add that from a customer perspective, what's selling right now is that 34 flight.

01:00So if you book, you can have confidence that the selling schedules are equal to the 34 that the secretary said,

01:05so you can book with confidence.

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