Lufthansa A340 and United B777 clip wings at Newark Airport

Do we have clearance Clarence? Roger....Roger? Roger are you there?

I tell ya, these Airbus vs Boeing battles for supremacy are getting pretty bad if we now have planes arm wrestling.

There goes that shiny new paint job.

Ouch - that will be an expensive fender bender. Does anyone know how similar aircraft insurance is to car fleet insurance? Is this something that would be processed as an insurance claim or paid directly by an airline etc?

This is why EWR is to be avoided, just like all the single active runway antiquated airports in the US air space system. They do not have adequate separation, taxi, or ramp space, not to mention enough available gates for the numbers and sizes of aircraft crammed into them.

someday soon - Aircraft and any airport vehicles will automatically avoid each other and human error
It's called a grid, wi-fi, triangulation,GPS & software.

The NYC shared airspace (EWR, JFK, LGA) is a disaster waiting to happen. UA should move its East Coast intercontinental / fortress hub to IAD (with three active runways) and less shared airspace. As it exists now, with three antiquated airports, NYC should be at the tip of a spoke, NOT a premier hub. It is old, inefficient, badly run, and maintained, and generally not safe.

EWR and other similarly configured places, that are holdovers from the earliest days of commercial aviation, need to be sunsetted as part of a major investment in national infrastructure to result in a safer, more efficient airspace system.