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No one has suggested they will. However, my experience has been that ATC is
quite accomodating when possible (your own tower cab notwithstanding).

Even at our largest GA airport in the area, Boeing Field right next door to
Sea-Tac, if traffic permits they will allow for landings against the
existing traffic pattern (which is always determined by the Sea-Tac pattern
and can take a while to catch up with a wind shift).



Just a few days ago at KBOS I saw a Virgin 747-400 land downwind in order to
get a sick passenger more quickly to the gate, where an ambulance was waiting.
Of course this is a bit different, because it involves a medical emergency, but
it must have required quite a bit of extra shuffling around by the tower
controllers.

I'm guessing the reason for the downwind landing was not to save time on the
ground (the plane still had to taxi back to the gate, probably just as far) but
to save time in the approach - the Gardner3/15R approach being unused by any
other aircraft when under these wind conditions.

GF