Maryland airports, which have been hit hard by the drop-off in air travel, received more than $100 million in federal relief funds this week, the state’s congressional delegation announced.
Most of the aid, which comes from the federal CARES Act via the Federal Aviation Administration, went to Thurgood Marshall Baltimore-Washington International.
BWI received $87,600,000 of the state’s $107.7 million allocation.
In 2018, the latest year for which statistics are available, nearly 13.4 million passengers boarded a flight there, making it the 22nd most popular airport in the nation.
But air travel has taken a nosedive since the COVID-19 crisis hit, causing extreme financial hardship for airports and the businesses and workers who serve passengers.
On April 15, the Transportation Security Administration screened just 90,784 passengers nationally, a 96% reduction from the 2.3 million passengers screened on the same date in 2019.
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