Summary The FAA has invited airlines to submit their slot and schedule requests for JFK, EWR, ORD, LAX, and SFO for the upcoming 2025 IATA summer season. However, the FAA has outlined that it would keep the 77-per-hour operational limit at EWR. Preliminary data has showed that in June 2025, airlines should add 150 more weekly flights at EWR compared to June 2024.
In a document inviting airlines to submit their International Air Transport Association (IATA) summer 2025 schedules, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also outlined that it would keep the current capacity limits at Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) . The FAA was scheduled to publish the document on August 23, according to the United States Federal Register. Capacity-managed airports in the US Related to the document, the FAA outlined that it has designated New York John F.
Kennedy International Airport (JFK) as an IATA Level 3 airport, consistent with the Worldwide Slot Guidelines (WSG). Other Level 3 airports in the US include LaGuardia Airport (LGA) and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA). The US-based regulator has limited scheduled operations at JFK by an order that will expire on October 24, 2026, which was initially issued in January 2008 and has been extended in 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, and 2022.
As a result, JFK has been limited to 81 scheduled operations – arrivals and departures – during slot-controlled hours between 6:00 and 22:59 local time (UTC -4). The .