I do not find this unusual at all. While living in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, my family owned property in Freeport, Bahamas and we would fly down quite often. On more than several occasions that I can remember no one being in the Tower at Freeports Airport. The first time, the local police actually went to the home of one of the controllers and got him out of bed to come and allow the plane to take off. When this became a re-occuring happening, the pilot got to the point where after waiting 30 minutes or so, and with no landing or other departures scheduled, the Pilots would just "wing it" and take off or land. We have heard many stories and incidents of this happening from all over to local regional airports here in the States, but more so in other countries and especially Island type airports. All I can say, is thankfully that the USA has rigid training requirements and ongoing training for pilots. If it were not for these expert Pilots being able to fly soley on instrument and sight, we would probably still be sitting on runways while someone is sleeping! I do realize there are good and bad in every bunch, but for the majority of Pilots in the USA, we have the best in the world. I can't say the same for the attendants, but thankfully they do NOT fly the aircraft.

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