![ACI: $2.4 Trillion Capital Investment Needed In Airport Infrastructure](https://civmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/oskar-kadaksoo-DDBDkz0p918-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
ACI: $2.4 Trillion Capital Investment Needed In Airport Infrastructure
Airports Council International (ACI) forecasts that more than $2.4 trillion in capital investments is needed by the airport sector to ensure that passenger demand will be met in 2040, according to a new report (The Global Outlook of Airport Capital Expenditure –...
![Ratings Roundup: New Fitch Ratings on Four Airports](https://civmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/bao-menglong-FhoJYnw-cg-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Ratings Roundup: New Fitch Ratings on Four Airports
Fitch Rating recently assigned the ratings on the following airports in the city of Atlanta, Long Beach, Charlotte, and Fresno. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL) was given 'AA-' rating on its senior lien airport general revenue bonds, airport...
![Looking Past Profit: Measuring the Financial Health of U.S. Airports](https://civmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/l-filipe-c-sousa-0nUcd4-pp5k-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
Looking Past Profit: Measuring the Financial Health of U.S. Airports
How should investors and ratings agencies vet the financial health of public airports? Many traditional measures of financial efficiency and profitability aren't entirely applicable to publicly-operated airports. In a new paper, researchers propose some metrics for...
![How COVID Impacted Airport Bond Ratings, Capital Planning](https://civmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/chris-leipelt-XfGuPGBJyZc-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
How COVID Impacted Airport Bond Ratings, Capital Planning
When COVID-19 hit in 2020 and airports turned into ghost towns, it was anyone's guess whether some airports (and their bond ratings) could weather the storm. New research, published in a recent issue of the Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, shows how CARES...
![Airport Finance Director Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Federal Funds](https://civmetrics.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/pexels-ekaterina-bolovtsova-6077431-1080x675.jpg)
Airport Finance Director Pleads Guilty to Embezzling Federal Funds
Former finance director of Huntington Tri-State Airport, Melissa Sue Hall, pleaded guilty to theft of federal funds after misappropriating nearly $49,500 from the airport. Included in the embezzled amount is the $10,000 federal funding received per year and deposited...