{"id":361,"date":"2013-04-05T12:30:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/?p=361"},"modified":"2013-04-05T12:23:15","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T19:23:15","slug":"361","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/361\/","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Yakima Air Traffic Control Tower Will Not Curtail Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interim Yakima Air Terminal Manager Rob Peterson \u2013 575-6149<\/p>\n<p>Communications &amp; Public Affairs Dir. Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Airplane traffic at Yakima\u2019s airport is expected to continue as normal even after the scheduled closure of the Yakima Air Terminal air traffic control tower in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the three daily commercial flights to Seattle provided by Horizon Air, a subsidiary of Alaska Airlines, will not be interrupted by the closure of the air traffic control tower.<\/p>\n<p>The Yakima tower is one of 149 in the U.S. that the Federal Aviation Administration (\u201cFAA\u201d) has announced will close over a four-week period beginning April 7<sup>th<\/sup>.\u00a0 The tower closures are part of the steps the FAA is taking to meet its cost cutting requirements as part of the federal sequester \u2013 the budget reduction measures that began being made on March 1<sup>st<\/sup> because of a stalemate between the Congress and President Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPilots are trained to be able to coordinate landings and takeoffs without help from ground controllers,\u201d said Interim Yakima Air Terminal Manager Rob Peterson.\u00a0 \u201cPilots will use a shared radio frequency in order to assure landings and takeoffs are done safely.\u00a0 There should not be any interruption in air traffic at the airport,\u201d said Peterson.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson said that, if needed, air traffic control can be provided for the Yakima airport from either the Tri-Cities Airport or the Sea-Tac Airport.<\/p>\n<p>The FAA announced that four other air traffic control towers in Washington State will also be closed as part of the federal sequester.\u00a0 Those towers are at the Olympia Regional Airport, Felts Field in Spokane, Tacoma Narrows Airport, and the Renton Municipal Airport.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&#8211; end &#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/6\/files\/sites\/6\/Yakima-Air-Traffic-Control-Tower-Closure-3-22-13.pdf\">Yakima Air Traffic Control Tower Closure &#8211; 3-22-13 (pdf)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contact: Interim Yakima Air Terminal Manager Rob Peterson \u2013 575-6149 Communications &amp; Public Affairs Dir. Randy Beehler \u2013 901-1142 &nbsp; Airplane traffic at Yakima\u2019s airport is expected to continue as normal even after the scheduled closure of the Yakima Air Terminal air traffic control tower in the next few weeks. Specifically, the three daily commercial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/media\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}