The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently awarded hundreds of airports $8 billion in grants through the Airport Rescue Grants program created in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
Funding will be used to help U.S. airports recover from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic by keeping workers employed and construction projects going.
Grant recipients include Yeager Airport in Charlestown, W.Va., $3.2 million; Gulfport-Biloxi International, $4.9 million; Portland International Jetport in Portland, Maine, $10.4 million; Ted Stevens Anchorage International, $44.4 million; Raleigh-Durham International, $50.6 million; St. Louis Lambert International, $56.2 million; Portland International, $72 million, Daniel K Inouye International in Honolulu, $74.3 million; Philadelphia International, $115 million; and Seattle-Tacoma International, $175.7 million.
