I fly out of a small-to-medium-sized airport in Canada and I've never seen it happen there. The idea of one person being responsible for both tower and ground in the busiest airspace in the US is absolute insanity.

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fakedang an hour ago | parent [-]

Agreed, but isn't O'Hare the busiest airport in the US?

Edit:- It's Atlanta.

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rkomorn an hour ago | parent [-]

Busiest airspace and busiest airport are two different things, technically.

The airspace that combines JFK, LaGuardia, and Newark, is the busiest airspace in the US.

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rhcom2 34 minutes ago | parent [-]

It's a crazy airspace. Add to that Teterboro, 12 miles from NYC and Republic ~20 miles from NYC, along with all the heliports on the Hudson.

	▲	rkomorn 13 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I don't envy anyone having to work in that airspace in any capacity.