CNN Airport Network on 21st Century Airports

May 13, 2019

As we kick off the official start to Infrastructure Week 2019, ACI-NA continues to amplify our important message about the need to invest in America’s aging airports. ACI-NA President and CEO Kevin Burke sat down with CNN Airport Network to talk about the need to modernize America’s airports and how it benefits passengers and local communities.

 

About ACI-NA

Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) represents local, regional, and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports in the United States and Canada. ACI-NA member airports enplane more than 95 percent of the domestic and virtually all the international airline passenger and cargo traffic in North America. Approximately 380 aviation-related businesses are also members of ACI-NA, providing goods and services to airports. Collectively, U.S. airports support more than 11.5 million jobs and account for $1.4 trillion in economic activity – or more than seven percent of the total U.S. GDP. Canadian airports support 405,000 jobs and contribute C$35 billion to Canada’s GDP. Learn more at www.airportscouncil.org.