a three point four percent increase over twenty sixteen and more passengers mean more dollars in fact the federal aviation administration calculated that in twenty fourteen civil aviation generated one point six trillion dollars and supported around ten point six million jobs and not just any jobs because a lot of the jobs that are done at an airport especially when we talk about aircraft maintenance and in other areas you know airport management these are high tech jobs these are jobs that pay very good incomes each employee who is a highly paid skilled worker you know he's going to be part of a chain of a whole bunch of other workers along the way so having a good airport having a well maintained. may get favorable destination is one of the best things you can do for a community the f.a.a. also estimates that the national cost of a poll congestion is expected to rise to thirty four billion in twenty twenty before going on to sixty three billion by twenty forty of current funding...