If only we would have had $4 Trillion to spend on shovel ready projects to fix stuff like this...
No problem...the air transit groups are lobbying for an increase in the departure fees right as we speak, from 4.50 to 9.00. IOW, each round trip will cost another $9 with the money to go toward airport infrastructure.
My local town unneeded air facility demonstrated recently how these fees are spent. Powered in part with an FAA grant to build a new terminal, the original idea of spending $1million became a 4+ million boondoggle. The final approval by the town commission was garnered when one of the counsel cretins said: it is not going to cost the city much, it is being paid for by the state and FAA.