一个众议院委员会已清除了为期四年的航空重新授权法案，该法案将为机场建设赠款提供推动力，并在乘客设施的指控中提高了升级，因为机场集团表示，资本需求继续攀升。但是，随着临时联邦航空管理局的授权将于3月31日失效，可能会进行另一项扩展。

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on March 5 approved a bill that would authorize $70 billion for FAA over the 2009-2012 period. It includes $16.2 billion for FAA's Airport Improvement Program, which provides grants to fund runways, taxiways and other infrastructure. Under the bill, AIP would receive $3.9 billion in 2009, with $100-million annual increases after that, topping out at $4.2 billion in 2012. AIP's 2008 appropriation was $3.5 billion.

The measure also would increase the maximum passenger facility charge that airports could levy, to $7 per flight segment, from $4.50 now.

As Congress debates the FAA legislation, the Airports Council International-North America on March 6 released a survey that pegs airports' capital needs at $94.3 billion over the next five years, up 8% from the level in the group's 2007 survey.

ACI-NA调查显示，终端项目占总美元中最大的份额，为46.6％，其次是“ 18luck官网Airside”工作，例如跑道，占总数的32％。地边项目，例如通行18luck官网道路或停车设施，占估计总需求总数的21.3％。