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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

I've got to admit, even in this era of cutting budgets and vilifying government employees, I was somewhat shocked that there was ever only one person in an air traffic control tower. That's insane.

Seems like if you raised the fees on an airline ticket by like 25 cents, you could fix the problem, and even raise enough money at the busy airports to subsidize the smaller ones.