The airport said the equipment will be able to process bags more quickly as passenger counts at DIA continue to grow. It will get $60 million that will go to terminal upgrades and replacing the baggage system TSA uses to screen bags before they are loaded onto planes, which the airport said is at the end of its life. The Airport Terminal Program provides $1 billion each year over five years.ĭenver International Airport is receiving the second-largest grant in this round out of any airport in the country. with money approved in the infrastructure bill last year under the Airport Terminal Program – one of three aviation-related programs created under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.Ĭolorado is expected to get about $430 million total for its airports over the next five years because of the law. The money is part of $1 billion the Biden administration is sending to 85 airports across the U.S. DENVER – Denver International Airport and Durango-La Plata County Airport will receive a total of $63 million – most of it going to Denver – in federal grant money to upgrade their baggage system and terminals.
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