北卡罗来纳州运输部航空司发布的一份报告强调了航空业如何在经济中创造数十亿美元和数千个工作岗位. 继续阅读下面的内容,以了解有关航空经济如何使北卡罗来纳州受益的更多信息.
北卡罗来纳州的公营机场 $61 billion to the state’s economy each year and support 373,000 工作, according to a report released by the NC Department of Transportation’s Division of Aviation. Airports and aviation-related jobs also provide $15 billion in personal income and contribute $2.5 billion in state and local tax revenues every year, 基于 2019 数据.
The report, 北卡罗来纳: The State of Aviation, highlights the pre-pandemic economic impacts of the state’s public airports and the related aviation and aerospace assets that support North Carolina’s aviation economy. NCDOT creates the report every two years to help guide future investment in aviation infrastructure and provide a tool for recruiting aviation and aerospace industry companies and investment.
“Despite the challenges of 2020, our network of 72 公有机场, and the aviation and aerospace assets that rely on them, still help move our economy forward by creating jobs, supporting business growth and connecting people and companies to markets around the globe,” said Bobby Walston, director of NCDOT’s Division of Aviation.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought significant impacts to the airports. Commercial airline travel declined, 例如, while private air charters and air freight operations reached record highs. While this report does not include the impacts of the pandemic, 该 2019 impact data demonstrates aviation’s economic contribution to the state and local communities and provides a benchmark for tracking recovery.
North Carolina’s public airport system boasts 10 commercial service and 62 general aviation airports that connect local businesses and communities to global markets, 房屋和加油私人飞机, support military, and agricultural aviation and statewide emergency response, and provide aviation services such as aerial photography and pilot training. The commercial service airports also offer regularly scheduled passenger service.
All airports generate significant economic returns for their communities and the state. 例如, North Carolina’s public airport’s lease space to more than 3,300 private aircraft that generate more than $11.6 million in property tax revenues for their communities each year. The owner of a $23 million aircraft based at a North Carolina airport pays local property taxes equivalent to those paid by owners of 115 homes valued at $200,000 each.
The report contains data compiled and analyzed for NCDOT by North Carolina State University’s Institute for Transportation Research and Education. Impacts are calculated based on factors such as jobs supported by the airports and the businesses that rely on them, business and leisure travelers, and airport capital projects and operations.
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