Flights into and out of the 520 US airports with air-traffic towers fell 54.5% in April, but Anchorage has become the ideal spot to for cargo and to refuel
The Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport in Anchorage, Alaska. Picture: 123RF/ANDREW F KAZMIERSKI
By some counts, it has been the world’s busiest. It’s an upside-down honour that makes airport manager Jim Szczesniak uncomfortable. “Being the world’s busiest is not a title we want,” he said of the facility, where the terminals feature life-size stuffed animals such as a moose and grizzly bear. “The world’s busiest airport is a bad situation for us to be in. It just shows you how bad the passenger side of the house is doing right now.
The sudden, unprecedented downturn has been “an extremely stressful event,” said Shahidi, who has been hosting webinars with industry and government leaders to examine the potential for a decrease in safety. “You have a significant impact on the workforce, be it pilots, mechanics, the flight crew — the uncertainty and hardship on that community.”NYC airports
Deer Valley Airport outside Phoenix, a popular spot for flight training and private flying, became the busiest US airport by far in April with 35,357 flights. Its traffic fell by 12.5%, but was still more than 10,000 above the next highest, O’Hare, according to FAA.Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona, was the fourth busiest, in part because a pilot-training facility there was deemed an essential business and continued to operate, airport director Corinne Nystrom said.
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