Newest report from our FAA is that the closure of 149 air traffic control towers at "small" airports is being delayed until June 15, as the agency needs more time to deal with mounting legal challenges to their action. These 149 towers are operated by private contractors for the agency and are expected to be closed all at once on June 15, rather than being phased gradually in over time, as was their original plan.
The FAA has not responded to two letters from an aviation committee of the US Congress for more justification for the closures. The second letter berated the FAA for it's lack of response to the first letter.
Locally, Oxnard Airport OXR had been slated for closure on May 5. Ventura County, it's owner's officials are considering options, including joining a lawsuit to try to prevent the closure or to fund the tower operation itself, according to the Ventura County Director of Airports, Todd McNamee.
Meanwhile, Chicago's O'Hare International Airport, one of our nation's busiest is slated for closure by the FAA of one of its TWO towers, which would halt all traffic on two runways and create many travel problems. KORD's towers are O'Hare Tower Center and O'Hare Tower North. Stay tuned to this never-ending potentially dangerous saga.