U.S. DOT Deputy Secretary visits MIA to celebrate major investment

On Thursday, February 22, Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava and Miami International Airport (MIA) Director and CEO Ralph Cutié welcomed U.S. Deputy Secretary of Transportation Polly Trottenberg to MIA to celebrate $27 million in federal grants for projects to improve the airport’s Central Terminal.

Deputy Secretary Trottenberg was joined by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Associate Administrator for Airports Shannetta Griffin for a tour of the ongoing construction at MIA’s Concourse E-H ticket counter area, which received $15 million from FAA’s Airport Infrastructure Grant in fiscal year 2023, made possible under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. MIA also received a $12 million grant to rehabilitate its existing Concourse E automated people mover system, which connects lower Concourse E to the Concourse E-Satellite. The rehabilitation project includes utility and facility adjustments and replacing its guideway system components.

Both projects are part of MIA’s unprecedented $7 billion Future Ready capital improvement program, which is making airport-wide modernizations and expansions over the next five to 15 years, and paving the way for MIA to reach a projected 77 million travelers and four million tons of freight by the year 2040. Through its Modernization in Action (M.I.A.) Plan, MIA is also undergoing $1.7 billion in maintenance upgrades to its elevators, escalators, moving walkways, bathrooms, and passenger boarding bridges