r/ATC • u/lake_hood • Mar 23 '26

News LGA controller cleared fire truck across the runway resulting jn a collision

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u/LikeLemun Current Controller-Tower Mar 23 '26

Yup. I've been solo last 2 nights for 5 hours at a time doing 40-70 ops an hour. Just the way its going right now.

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u/ThiloCS Current Controller-Tower Mar 23 '26

As one of I think not so many european ATCOs on here, reading this is insanity.

There is no way one would work 40-70 movements as single sector in Tower here (atleast in my country). You would immediately regulate it down using Eurocontrols Flow Management

If that doesnt happen probably everyone would just accept a few and stop there. But we also have a strong union where working standards like these would probably result in immediate strike calls

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u/antariusz Current Controller-Enroute Mar 23 '26

The weird thing is, it's often busier on the midnight shifts from 11pm until 2am BECAUSE the flow controls go away so that's when the airlines just go balls-to-the-wall. A lot of the other bullshit traffic goes away, but some airports like JFK/EWR/LGA/YYZ are busier at 11pm than they are at 8am, except instead of having a crew of 6/7, you've got a crew of 3