![]() If the bipartisan framework does become law, airports’ budgetary needs are so severe - and their spatial challenges so significant - that $25 billion is likely not enough to be a cure-all for their infrastructure challenges. But the prognosis is positive overall - a welcome sign for airports needing funding for long-awaited improvements. ![]() The deal still faces potential challenges in the House, where progressive Democrats have signaled a wariness to back it without guaranteed moderate support for a separate budget package, which includes investments like universal pre-K and green card reforms. That bipartisan infrastructure framework (known as the BIF) still has a long runway ahead of it before passage, although an initial agreement has been reached in the Senate. The White House and a bipartisan group of senators are working on a plan for a roughly $1 trillion investment in US infrastructure, a number that includes $25 billion for airports. However, federal help for airports may be on the way. The airport grade was worse than those of other, oft-maligned parts of US transportation infrastructure, like bridges, which earned a C, and roads, which were given a D. Not only are few US airports among the world’s best, but overall, they are in bad shape: In 2021, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) gave America’s aviation system a D+, largely because airports’ basic inefficiencies and lack of space lead to problems like delays and overcrowding. 31, and only Houston, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, Denver, and Atlanta’s airports show up in the top 50. No American airport cracks Skytax’s top 30 George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in Houston, is the highest-ranked American airport at No. ![]() Sign up to receive our newsletter each Friday. Vox’s German Lopez is here to guide you through the Biden administration’s burst of policymaking.
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