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Originally Posted by Bourkky
Heard something this week about ADM refusing "flights" this coming summer. Anybody heard anything like this too? Heard it from an ADM Apron controller employee. If true, what flights were refused? New company? Already establish company that wanted to increase frequency? And also if true, ADM needs to hurry up with terminal expansion.
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They don't have enough gates at peak times, so this was inevitable. They will start boarding at remote gates this summer. They bought brand new buses for this.
Extensive towing operations have become the norm here (AC and TS). Have a look at latest imagery on Google Earth. ADM built remote parking north of runway 10/28, so that the tows don't go too far (specifically TS, as their hangar is next to the threshold to rwy 24R). This meant we couldn't use rwy 10/28.
Rwy 06L/24R and taxiway B need to be closed this spring/summer, as well as summer 2019, so we need to use rwy 10/28 in order to have at least 2 operational runways at all times. This means that the newly built remote parking needs to be decommissioned. ADM started doing that this week.( Brand new light poles came down.) They had changed all of runway 10/28s lights to blue, as it was going to be a taxiway for the foreseeable future, so the white lights need to return before we can use it. Huge cluster 🞵🞵🞵🞵 on their part. This is what happens when there is no long term planning at a company.
Anyway, I'll leave it at that for now.
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