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In addition, control towers at smaller airports such as Boca Raton, Florida, and Joplin, Missouri, would be closed, he said. ..

As a direct user of the system, this is good news. Much easier for aircraft to get in and out of rarely-busy sparse-trafficked non-towered airports than when they have towers.

Another example of "make-work", as only a national govt knows best how to do.

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I’m all in favor of not paying for things we shouldn’t be paying for. If some of the closures are things that should be closed, then that will have been a positive.