Originally Posted by semifinalist
since i would prefer Approach i wasn't sure as i always thought approach to be a breed of control in itself.
Aerodrome and Approach are separate disciplines, but are often lumped together as 'Airports', since traditionally you did both disciplines and were based on the airport with the radar room either in or close to the tower building.
Since the advent of TC, with the London airports Approach and TMA Area controllers sitting in the same control room off the airport leaving Aerodrome-only controllers on the airports themselves, the definitions have blurred somewhat.