Commercial Fixed Wing
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Situational Awareness; Communication Breakdown
ATC Issue All Types
Company Policy; Human Factors; Staffing
It's beyond ridiculous that there would ever be only 1 person working the FLL Tower; I really don't care what time it is. Tower; Ground; and Ramp Control all handled by one human is unsafe. Like I said; it was fairly busy; but even if it wasn't; shouldn't there be a bare minimum of 2 people in the Tower for the same reasons we are required to have 2 people in the cockpit?
Air carrier Captain reported an unsafe situation when only one Tower Controller was operating all frequencies at the FLL Tower.