Exclusive | The 13 flights United Airlines is most likely to cancel at Newark airport as chaos shows no signs of slowing

United Airlines is nixing routes to and from smaller cities in an effort to contain the fallout from the mess at Newark Liberty Airport — which has seen thousands of flights delayed and hundreds canceled in the last week, The Post can reveal.United — which accounts of 75% of Newark’s traffic — announced last week it was cancelling 35 daily flights into and out of the New Jersey hub to mitigate the snarl that has resulted from air traffic controller shortages, aging safety equipment and a runway under construction.United has declined to detail the flights that have gotten axed, but data from real-time flight tracking service FlightRadar24 shows that certain routes are being targeted.Here are the 13 flights that United has canceled most often since the crisis began:Moving forward, flights to smaller destinations are most likely to face cancellation — leaving passengers scrambling for alternatives, experts say.That’s because international routes, and flights to larger airports tend to use bigger planes, which offer better profit margins for the airline.

“The flights that would probably be least impacted would be the international flights, the ones where people are coming on connections from all over,” said Kyle Bailey, a former FAA Safety Team representative and pilot.“What they don’t want to do is affect the real high-ticket flights,” he said.United CEO Scott Kirby announced a reduction in flights at Newark in a May 2 letter to customers, citing staffing shortages at the Philadelphia air traffic control center that oversees landings and takeoffs at Newark Airport.“United is committed to doing absolutely everything in our power to minimize the impact that this will have on customers and so we are unilaterally cancelling 35 roundtrip flights per day from our Newark schedule starting this weekend,” he wrote.At least five controllers recently went on 45-day trauma leave after an April 28 incident when an equipment failure sparked by a fried cop...