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.

The airport's first transatlantic service comes with $5.5 million of conditional incentives over the next two years.

The 11 new planes will replace nine current aircraft in the school's aviation program that average 14 years old.

Weather permitting, the ramp is scheduled to close at 9 p.m. on Friday, July 7 and open before 6 a.m. on Monday, July 10.

The money was announced this week by the U.S. Department of Transportation as part of $527.8 million in grants to airports across the country.

Leaders from the ACLU, Exodus Refugee Immigration and the Indiana Democratic Party spoke out against the refugee and immigrant bans.

This is the latest addition to a growing list of flights from Indianapolis to the West Coast.