The COVID-19 pandemic paused the installation of new art in many places, including the Indianapolis International Airport.

The airport's flight activity has dropped to as low as 5 percent of typical operations since the virus outbreak spread across the U.S. in March, and it recently served only 14 of its 53 destinations

The latest round of federal airport infrastructure grants to Indiana includes $4.74 million to Indianapolis International Airport for taxiway and apron rehabilitation and security enhancements.

The Federal Aviation Administration this week announced a total of $477 million in infrastructure grants nationwide.

The Indianapolis Airport Authority conducted full-scale, multi-agency emergency training exercise to test the airport's emergency operation plans.

FAA officials said delays were caused by having too few air traffic controllers available for duty as a result of the federal government shutdown.

The authority announced Thursday that the projects focus primarily on rehabilitating existing infrastructure as well as improving sustainability, safety and security.

The kiosks opened this month, two months before the airport's inaugural nonstop trans-Atlantic flight to Paris.

Airport officials say its number of passengers on both arriving and departing flights jumped about 3 percent from 2016.

It's the fourth consecutive year the airport has been rated the nation's best by the magazine's readers.