Tag: FAA

February 8, 2024

After months of delay, the Senate commerce committee has approved a five-year Federal Aviation Administration bill that would boost FAA’s Airport Improvement Program infrastructure grants by 19%, to $4 billion a year. The measure, which the Commerce, Science and Transportation […]

February 1, 2024

The Federal Aviation Administration has awarded $243.7 million for airport infrastructure grants around the country to improve runways and taxiways and expand or build terminals. In announcing the selections on Jan. 30, FAA said that its latest batch of awards […]

July 21, 2023

Legislation to reauthorize Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) programs has climbed an important rung on the ladder to enactment due to House approval of a five-year measure that includes a big increase for FAA airport grants. The bill, which the House […]

March 3, 2023

Nearly 100 U.S. airports’ capital construction programs are getting a boost of almost $1 billion in the fiscal year 2023 round of grants from a new Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act program targeted at improvements to airport terminals. In all, […]

July 31, 2019

It would be useful to most contractors to be able to fly drones over their jobsites while activity is in full swing, allowing them to make more observations of the work in progress, the number of people on site and […]

June 11, 2019

The funding is welcome as airports attempt to fund much-needed improvements on their own. Lawmakers once again failed to raise the $4.50 Passenger Facility Charge (PFC) that helps airports pay for their capital construction programs. Airports are allowed to tack […]

September 13, 2018

As airport authorities develop capital programs to expand and modernize their facilities, they’re also faced with how to pay for these initiatives. The Federal Aviation Administration provides money for some infrastructure improvements, but not on the scale of the hundreds […]