Locally, the tower at the airport in Norman, Oklahoma, home of the University of Oklahoma, has funding to stay open, offered by the President of the University. No word if the FAA will accept the offer.
The same thing for Wiley Post Airport in Oklahoma City, the money coming from businesses that have their company aircraft based there. No word about the offer from the FAA for them either.
About everyone is still asking the same question. As the funding cuts that are due to the sequestration are cuts from budget increases, where the hell did the money come from to run the towers last year?
Its a nasty political game that being played it seems to me. And some oil men and the President of the University of Oklahoma is calling the government's bluff in Oklahoma. 'You don't have enough money to keep our towers open, fine, we do, keep them open.'
Last edited by con-pilot; 6th April 2013 at 22:44.