FAA Closing Control Tower at Lynchburg Regional Airport

The sequestration plan is hitting home again, this time at Lynchburg Regional Airport. The FAA released its Tower Closure List on Friday, March 22 to go into effect on April 7 as an effort to cut spending.

Lynchburg Regional Airport is the only airport in Virginia that will close out of the list of 149 regional airports. As many as five people could lose their jobs at the Lynchburg Regional Airport. Planes will still be able to land and take off from Lynchburg, but they'll be monitored from a control tower in Roanoke.  That already happens during the late night and early morning hours, when Lynchburg's control tower isn't staffed.

The director of Lynchburg Regional Airport, Mark Courtney, says passengers can expect delays after the closure, but it will not affect the airport's stringent safety guidelines and procedures.


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