USCTA Alerts

After months of delay, House and Senate transportation committee leaders early this morning unveiled a bipartisan and bicameral FAA reauthorization bill that would increase AIP funding to $4 billion annually, authorize $350 million to help airports transition to fluorine-free firefighting foam, and usher in a long list of policy changes to help airports of all sizes.

If you haven’t already done so, please contact your representative today and ask your lawmaker to cosign a bipartisan letter requesting funding for the FAA Contract Tower Program in the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriation process.

This is a reminder to please complete the USCTA survey on controller staffing that we sent out earlier this month.

This is a reminder to reach out to your lawmakers and ask them to sign letters requesting full funding for the FAA Contract Tower Program in the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriation process.

On behalf of USCTA Chair Clara Bennett, the Executive Director of the Boca Raton Airport Authority, we would like to invite you to join us for a USCTA meeting at the upcoming 96th Annual AAAE Conference and Exhibition in Nashville, Tennessee.

Many airports that participate in the FAA Contract Tower program have been raising increasing concerns about how the controller shortage is impacting operations at their towers.

This is another reminder that you are invited to participate in a virtual USCTA meeting tomorrow. The meeting will be held on Thursday, April 11 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST.

We are urging airports to reach out to their representatives and ask them to sign a letter requesting full funding for the FAA Contract Tower Program in the Fiscal Year 2025 appropriation process.

On behalf of USCTA Chair Clara Bennett, I would like to invite you to participate in a virtual USCTA meeting next week. The meeting will be held on Thursday, April 11 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. EST.

On April 3, the FAA announced the deadlines for submitting a notice of intent (NOI) and final grant application for the use of primary, cargo, and nonprimary entitlement funds that are available under the Airport Improvement Program (AIP) for fiscal year 2024 (FY24).