US Congress: Infrastructure Act – airports still barely supported

Getting by with no help from its friends but plenty from its enemies the US government has secured the passage of the ‘Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act’ into law.

The Bill provides for more than USD1 trillion in cash to a variety of ‘needy causes’ but only USD25 billion to arguably the neediest of them all: the airports sector, where it will be applied to repair backlogs and green issues.

That still leaves a great deal of money to be found to fund airport infrastructure (Airports Council International-North America, ACI-NA, habitually claims USD100 billion or more is needed right now) but again, there is the potential contribution of the private sector – continually overlooked, but for some unaccountable reason still retaining an interest in US airports, despite being rebuffed on many occasions.