Worcester Regional Airport will receive $1.3 million to help it cope with the coronavirus pandemic fallout, part of the Airport Grant Program in the $2-trillion CARES Act, the Federal Aviation Administration announced in a press release on Tuesday.
The money is part of a $171 million package distributed among 26 Massachusetts airports.
The funding is intended to supplement income lost from significant passenger traffic in the face of the pandemic. The grant money may go toward airport capital expenditures, airport operating expenses and airport debt payments, according to the press release.
JetBlue Airways, which until the coronavirus pandemic hit, was operating three daily roundtrip flights out of Worcester. The airline has stopped the flights to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale and has bookings for its non-stop to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City at 15% capacity.
Delta Air Lines and American Airlines still are operating their daily roundtrip flights out of Worcester, to Detroit and Philadelphia, respectively.
