EAST TEXAS (Staff\/AP) — Two East Texas airport managers say their airports could continue to operate if their air traffic control centers closed. That word comes in the wake of a federal announcement that both airports’ control centers are on a list of possible closures if automatic federal spending cuts take effect next week. Roy Miller of East Texas Regional and Davis Dickson of Tyler Pounds Regional Airport both say contingency measures are used at airports when the control centers are not operational. Dickson notes that his airport already closes at night. He says he anticipates that air traffic control duties for Tyler would fall to facilities in Fort Worth and Shreveport if Tyler’s tower were closed due to the spending cuts. <\/p>\n
Both men say they have yet to receive any official notification from the FAA. But Miller adds that even if an airport is tabbed for closure, the feds would provide notice and offer a comment period — a process that could take from 3 to 6 months. Dickson agrees that such a process would likely be implemented. And neither manager thinks East Texas Regional or Tyler Pounds would be high on any list of possible control center closures. Dickson adds that he thinks any such closure for Tyler “would be a short-term thing, if at all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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