Tail Gunner Joe
Well-known member
- Joined
- Apr 22, 2005
- Posts
- 203
FAA considers consolidating traffic control for 4 airports at Hopkins
By Associated Press
February 05, 2010, 9:54AM
YOUNGSTOWN -- Some air traffic control operations for four northern Ohio airports could be consolidated at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the proposal involving airports in Akron, Mansfield, Toledo and Youngstown is under consideration as an efficiency move.
An FAA spokeswoman says no decision has been made and the upgraded Cleveland facility won't be ready before 2015.
Local airport tower crews would still handle flights within five miles. But the proposal would move to Cleveland the controllers handling flights five miles to 40 miles out, when the regional control center in Oberlin takes over.
The controllers union says such a move could deny emergency flights contact with controllers who know the local terrain.
source: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/02/faa_considers_consolidating_tr.html
By Associated Press
February 05, 2010, 9:54AM
YOUNGSTOWN -- Some air traffic control operations for four northern Ohio airports could be consolidated at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration says the proposal involving airports in Akron, Mansfield, Toledo and Youngstown is under consideration as an efficiency move.
An FAA spokeswoman says no decision has been made and the upgraded Cleveland facility won't be ready before 2015.
Local airport tower crews would still handle flights within five miles. But the proposal would move to Cleveland the controllers handling flights five miles to 40 miles out, when the regional control center in Oberlin takes over.
The controllers union says such a move could deny emergency flights contact with controllers who know the local terrain.
source: http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/02/faa_considers_consolidating_tr.html