alt Hacker NewsHow do you know it was due to staffing shortages? It is common at LGA for one controller to be handling Tower and Ground late at night.
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And therein lies the problem. Clearly, having one overworked controller running a combined tower is not safe nor sustainable.
That seems mad, given the volume of traffic they're working - even without emergencies. My local GA field is single controller, and that's VFR, grass runways, averages 40-50 movements/day.
What you just described is a long term staffing shortage.
Some people here coded the buttons that sometimes don't work when you check in for your flight. That makes them aviation experts. How dare you question wild assumptions.
"The system worked yesterday, so it should have worked forever."
> It is common at LGA for one controller to be handling Tower and Ground late at night.
What happens when they need the bathroom, or have some kind of medical problem? If it's really a common case for one controller to handle things, the system itself needs to be fundamentally rethought.
You are describing a staffing shortage.