United Airlines flights to and from Chicago O’Hare are being reduced due to construction, and that will impact one flight at Lincoln Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration has ordered O’Hare to limit operations to just over 2,700 flights per day during the busy summer travel season.
Airlines had originally scheduled more than 3,000 daily flights for peak travel days in 2026. FAA officials say ongoing construction at O’Hare is creating gate constraints, forcing carriers to temporarily reduce service. LNK Marketing Director Rachel Barth United Airlines recently announced they would be adding a fifth flight from Lincoln to O’Hare, but will now drop one daily flight, reducing its schedule from five flights a day down to four.
Barth says customers won’t be impacted too much because American Airlines will begin service at LNK in early June. “Our flights specifically with American have not been impacted by the FAA reduction, so them really coming in, being able to kind of add that fifth flight back for us should really help out passengers this summer.
Barth says the reduction is expected to last from June through early August. Passengers already booked on affected United flights should have been automatically rebooked by the airline.