The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has delivered $5 million to South Dakota’s Sioux Falls Regional Airport to modernize restrooms and a mother’s room.
In total, the U.S. Department of Transportation invested $970 million in 133 airports across 45 states through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act – Airport Terminal Program (ATP) to enhance the travel experience for families.
In December 2025, Transportation Sean Secretary Duffy encouraged airports across the nation to present projects to the FAA that support more family-friendly resources at airports including:
- Creating more children’s play areas or exercise areas
- Adding mothers’ rooms or nursing pods
- Reconfiguring security checkpoints to create family screening lanes
- Building sensory rooms for children with special needs
- Other creative terminal projects that focus on enhancing the family travel journey
Other airports that received funding include:
- $2 million to Mississippi’s Tupelo Regional Airport to expand their terminal to include a family-friendly security screening lane to enhance the family travel experience.
- $8 million to Dallas-Ft. Worth International Airport to modernize five restrooms with family-friendly features.
- $150,000 to Vermont’s Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport to construct a children’s play area in the terminal, giving kids space to run around before a flight.
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