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by pbhjpbhj 81 days ago
When the airport is closed, in case there was an emergency that needed to reroute. One person on then makes sense?

La Guardia appears to handle 400 flights a day, 22 an hour. I see 6 moving planes right now (https://www.flightradar24.com/airport/lga); hopefully they have more than one person on?
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pc86 81 days ago
400 flights a day is 16-17 per hour and those are going to be mostly during the day. As someone else points out there is a ~6 hour stretch overnight with no scheduled departures. That's somewhat common even at large hubs.

I don't want to blow your mind but if the airport closes there aren't going to be any controllers in the tower.

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pbhjpbhj 78 days ago
I accounted for 'closed' hours. Hence 22/h. The incident in question was close to closing time, but there were 2 issues, one a declared emergency.

Likely, the problem was with truck 1 wishing to get to the emergency quickly. There was at least one queued landing hence the go-around demand after the crash.

It doesn't blow my mind, but at a major air hub like LGA I'm surprised there isn't a controller on site for callout?

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