All air traffic controllers resign at 'hugely important' airport

[MineralMan]

46. Good. My comment was about calling SQL an important airport.

There are about a dozen or more large general aviation airports in the Bay Area. They're important to the pilots who use them, but don't come close to the impact of the major airports in the area.

I live in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. We have MSP as our major airport. There are many general aviation airports in the area, but like there are in the Bay Area. Some of them, like Flying Cloud Airport, see around 100,000 operations per year, like SQL. General air traffic control is available, but not detailed ATC control at those airports, for the most part.

If you're flying to the Twin Cities, whether you're in a four-seater Cessna or a corporate jet, you're going to land at one of those reliever airports, like Flying Cloud. You're not flying your little plane into MSP. You've checked out the regulations for the area and have planned your flight accordingly.

Not all reliever airports have full ATC coverage at that airport. VFR rules apply. Hundreds of flights a day land at and take off from reliever airports. Safely. There are rules to help you be safe. You're expected to know them.