The Top 50 U.S. Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities 11-20

The Top 50 U.S. Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities

Here’s some things to note when reading this chart:

• The numbers are total operations for the year (divide by 365 if you really need to estimate the daily ops count). “Operations” are arrivals, departures, overflights, VFR aircraft screwing around, etc.

• Some facilities will have “Tower” in their name. Philadelphia tower is an “Up/Down” facility (Sort of). The data in this table is just for the operations that the TRACON portion of the facility worked.

  RANK	ID	NAME	FY15	FY16	CHANGE
  11	F11	Central Florida	654,086	673,746	+19,660
  12	P50	Phoenix	670,361	672,972	+2,611
  13	A90	Boston	605,674	639,498	+33,824
  14	CLT	Charlotte Tower	631,118	636,264	+5,146
  15	L30	Las Vegas	585,590	605,514	+19,924
  16	S46	Seattle	539,485	578,654	+39,169
  17	PHL	Philadelphia Tower	586,777	574,328	-12,449
  18	M98	Minneapolis	521,513	525,247	+3,734
  19	D21	Detroit	505,740	521,998	+16,258
  20	HCF	Honolulu Control Facility	474,465	478,441	+3,976

  Not too many surprises on this list. Seattle had a notable increase in traffic, while Philadelphia Tower saw some drop off in their ops count. Phoenix and Central Florida Approach traded positions. For many years now Central Florida has been at or just below the number 11 spot. Hopefully they’ll soon be able to crack the top 10. Click here for numbers 21-30 on the list