Airport revenue bonds

The airport paired long fixed-rate debt with four- and seven-year mandatory tender bonds in the transaction honored as the Southwest region's Deal of the Year.

Moody's cited the airport's "significant improvement in liquidity" and "continued enplanement recovery" in its decision to upgrade the rating to Aa3.

Ten winners across five regions and five additional categories will be celebrated Dec. 2 in New York City, where one will be crowned the overall Deal of the Year.

The airport's sprawling capital improvement program is expected to total $11.5 billion over the next decade, $9 billion of it bond funded.

Fresno, California, received a boost to positive from stable on its senior lien airport revenue bonds.

The city plans to sell about $690 million of AMT bonds on Nov. 18 to finance facilities and refund outstanding debt for the airline.

The bonds are rated A-plus by three ratings agencies and are expected to have serial maturities from 2026 to 2055.

Atlanta's airport lost $57 million of funding for the current fiscal year. Other issuers have even more at stake.

Chicago is returning to market with a $375 million deal for O'Hare Airport, according to multiple rating reports, with more on the way.

The U.S. Department of Transportation announced it has achieved a hiring goal for new air traffic controllers as the threat of a government shutdown looms in the background.

Infrastructure like vertiports may be financed with municipal bonds.

Dallas Fort Worth International Airport plans to sell $2 billion of revenue bonds this week as it continues financing for a $12 billion capital program.

The marquee project of many funded by next week's bond sale is the widening of the airport's Concourse D and the building of a Delta Sky Club lounge above it. 

Florida is poised to reap the rewards of spaceport financing legislation, even if some headwinds remain.

The port, which operates Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, received a Moody's Ratings upgrade ahead of a $761 million revenue bond deal slated for next week.

The airport, also selling $412.8 million of new money, will join a bevy of issuers who have deployed a tender offer in the hope of realizing refunding savings.

The $719.5 million of general airport revenue bonds will help finance an ongoing multi-billion-dollar capital improvement plan.

Moody's expects enplanements at the facility will remain below the low end of its former projections.

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.