AMERICAN AIRPORT EXECUTIVES SEE DEVELOPMENT DOLLAR SIGNS AS TRUMP PREPARES TO ASSUME PRESIDENCY
December 1st, 2016
As the festive season approaches, airport industry representatives in the United States are seeing visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads in contemplation of funding prospects under the incoming presidential administration.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office January 20, has made the poor condition of US infrastructure a campaign talking point, at times characterising airports in the country as “third-world facilities”.
His upset election victory in November (and his subsequent designation of Elaine Chao, who was transport ...
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