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General Discussion / FAA Makes Decision to Close Air Traffic Control Towers
« on: March 24, 2013, 12:27:08 PM »Quote from: Ken Bambach
KLAL, home of Sun-n-Fun is on that list. There is no way that event can be held at a non- towered field. Something has to give. Either keep the tower open or else cancel / move the event. For the life of me, I can't imagine the FAA canceling the event at KLAL. There would be a GA revolt for certain. Regardless, vZMA intends to hold our annual event there with a fully staffed tower. Thats the benefit when your controllers don't get paid...sequestration or not!!
The Administrator can allow it to be open for that period of time. There is nothing preventing them from doing that. Do not forget, this is something that is being forcefully done to make the sequester have an impact, not something mandated by the actual written language in the sequester. It is up to each Agency head to comply with the funding reduction as they see fit. There have been other ways the FAA could have saved a decent fair bit of change.
I mean the FAA does have a lot of non-controlling staff they could have furloughed.