The Top 50 U.S. Terminal Radar Approach Control Facilities 21-30

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. Tampa tower is an “Up/Down” facility. The data in this table is just for the operations that the TRACON portion of the facility worked.

RANK	ID	NAME	FY15	FY16	CHANGE
21	TPA	Tampa Tower	449,312	456,195	+6,883
22	S56	Salt Lake City	404,545	408,675	+4,130
23	JAX	Jacksonville	343,878	361,549	+17,671
24	CMH	Columbus Tower	314,573	325,673	+11,100
25	ZSU	San Juan CERAP	313,713	324,336	+10,623
26	SAT	San Antonio	328,008	318,245	-9,763
27	DAB	Daytona Beach Tower	324,924	317,406	-7,518
28	T75	St. Louis	301,881	313,275	+11,394
29	P80	Portland	302,142	312,801	+10,659
30	P31	Pensacola	302,852	292,432	-10,420

Some of the facilities are neck and neck. San Antonio has fallen a great deal in recent years. It looks like it can no longer claim it’s title of “The World’s Busiest Level 9”. Daytona Beach Tower also had a drop off in ops count…maybe Embry Riddle reduced their flights. It’s sad to see St. Louis’ fall from grace. Back in the day, it used to be a hopping place. Things change I guess. Click for numbers 31-40 on the list