The CARES Act helped American Airlines, but it “doesn’t solve everything,” the carrier’s CEO says
, updated with more stats and quotes from frustrated airport managers.Overall, most airports are grateful to get any piece of the $10 billion that was allocated to them in the bill, even if the distribution worked out in a strange way. And there’s more coming their way soon: DOT announced on Thursday it would be sending more than $1 billion in Airport Improvement Grants and Supplemental Discretionary grants out to airports, which Congress appropriated in its fiscal 2020 spending bill.
The Senate Armed Services Committee, alarmed at the proposal because of possible disruptions to military uses of GPS, is holding a hearing on the issue next week with Pentagon brass but no one from Ligado was invited — nor, apparently, from the FCC, which unanimously approved Ligado’s plan.
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