Airport revenue bonds

The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority is pricing $714.4 million worth of airport system revenue and refunding bonds on Thursday as part of a scheduled sale with an uncertain demand.

Chicago's O'Hare airport is in the middle of dispute between United Airlines and American Airlines at a tense time for the airport and airline sectors.

Strong enplanement growth, an expansive number of days of cash on hand and low costs outweigh credit concerns, analysts said.

Flight delays and safety concerns at Newark Airport has pushed FAA funding levels back into the headlines as the idea of issuing user fee supported bonds to provide a non-political revenue stream comes back to life.

The rating agency expects a decline in U.S. air passenger numbers this year due to a deceleration in U.S. economic growth, it said in a report this week. 

Charlotte will sell $330 million of bonds and Duke Health will offer $540 million.

The outlook revision to positive from stable comes ahead of the airport's planned refunding and plans to issue bonds to help finance a $2.7 billion capital program.

As cutting the federal budget resonates as a central theme in the Trump administration, the Department of Transportation is getting a boost in appropriation proposals.

The $350 million revenue bond issue will refund bonds sold in 2015 and finance improvements to the airline's primary maintenance facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Chris Hollins, the city's chief financial officer, said Texas anti-ESG laws are raising costs at the same time the city faces a structural budget deficit.