Items Tagged with 'passenger facility charges'

Final measure include new $5.3-billion, five-year airport grant program for rural, nonhub airports.

Senate, House bills lift AIP grants to an average of more than $3.6 billion a year, from $3.35 billion in 2017.

Airports face an annual $10-billion shortfall to meet their rising infrastructure needs, which total $99.9 billion over the next five years, an airport group says in a new report.

Extension through July 15, which Obama is expected to sign, gives Congress time to work on longer-term FAA bill.

Bill would hike funding for airport construction grants but freeze cap on passenger facility charges. It also would spin off FAA's air traffic control operation.