---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 9072"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "9072"
heading: "Pandemic relief for aviation workers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/9072"
units:
  - "Chapter 116 — Coronavirus Economic Stabilization (cares Act)"
  - "Subchapter III — Economic Stabilization and Assistance to Severely Distressed Sectors of the United States Economy"
  - "Part B — Air Carrier Worker Support"
---

# §9072. Pandemic relief for aviation workers

- (a) **Financial assistance for employee wages, salaries, and benefits—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, to preserve aviation jobs and compensate [air carrier](/usc/15/9041.md?p=1) industry workers, the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9) shall provide financial assistance that shall exclusively be used for the continuation of payment of [employee](/usc/15/9041.md?p=5) wages, salaries, and benefits to—
  - (1) passenger [air carriers](/usc/15/9041.md?p=1), in an aggregate amount up to $25,000,000,000;
  - (2) cargo [air carriers](/usc/15/9041.md?p=1), in the aggregate amount up to $4,000,000,000; and
  - (3) contractors, in an aggregate amount up to $3,000,000,000.
- (b) **Administrative expenses—** Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the [Secretary](/usc/15/9041.md?p=9), may use $67,000,000 of the funds made available under [section 9080(a)](/usc/15/9080.md)[^1] of this title for costs and administrative expenses associated with providing financial assistance under this part.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. There is no subsec. (a) in section 9080 of this title.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 116–136, div. A, title IV, § 4112, Mar. 27, 2020, 134 Stat. 498; Pub. L. 117–328, div. LL, § 102(d)(1)(B), Dec. 29, 2022, 136 Stat. 6103.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–328 substituted “$67,000,000” for “$100,000,000”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2022 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 117–328 effective upon issuance of guidance or the promulgation of a rule by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of Transportation, see section 102(c) of Pub. L. 117–328, set out as a note under secton 802 of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.