WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration stated Thursday it’s offering $970 million for enhancements at 114 airports across the nation, with work starting from wider concourses and new baggage-handling methods to new terminals at some small airfields.

Administration officers stated the cash comes from a $5 billion grant program to modernize airport terminals.

The most important sum, $50 million, will go to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport in Florida for a challenge to attach terminals behind the safety checkpoints and supply new retail area and different facilities.

O’Hare Worldwide Airport in Chicago will get $40 million to widen a concourse, reconfigure a safety checkpoint and different adjustments. Phoenix Sky Harbor Worldwide Airport, Washington Dulles Worldwide Airport in northern Virginia, San Francisco Worldwide and Los Angeles Worldwide will obtain quantities starting from $31 million to $36 million.

A Federal Aviation Administration official stated there have been greater than 600 functions and requests totaled $14 billion.

The administration has gone to nice lengths to advertise new and proposed protections for air vacationers — seeing airways as a straightforward goal of shopper frustration.

President Joe Biden has railed in opposition to charges that some airways cost to let households sit collectively. The Transportation Division printed a web based “dashboard” to prod airways to decide to enhancing customer support.

“One other a part of that higher journey expertise is to put money into our bodily infrastructure, to enhance the airports,” Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg stated in discussing the airport grants with reporters.

Final month, the Transportation Division introduced $244 million in grants for enhancements to different airport amenities together with runways and taxiways.