citabriapilot
Well-Known Member
What determines if an airport gets a tower? Is it number of operations per day, city/county requests, airline requests?
I'm assuming its NOT operations per day because I have seen places in the northwest (PDT, IDA, TWF, PIH, EKO) that all have towers (mostly contract) but are usually dead as a doornail. Out in FL I've been in and out of airports with NO tower that were so busy with GA training and corporate stuff that they seemed like JFK compared to these towered places in the northwest. Just curious how low operation airports afford or justify having the tower when the busy places don't?
I'm assuming its NOT operations per day because I have seen places in the northwest (PDT, IDA, TWF, PIH, EKO) that all have towers (mostly contract) but are usually dead as a doornail. Out in FL I've been in and out of airports with NO tower that were so busy with GA training and corporate stuff that they seemed like JFK compared to these towered places in the northwest. Just curious how low operation airports afford or justify having the tower when the busy places don't?