TN: Chattanooga Airport Grapples with Soaring Passenger Traffic

Dec. 29, 2017

As Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport passenger boardings in 2017 near the half-million mark for the first year ever — up 67 percent since the start of the decade — officials are eyeing the future.

Building more gates for arriving and departing aircraft, raising a parking garage for airport users and adding another security checkpoint line are among ideas that could take off.

The airport is spending $1.1 million on a new plan looking ahead by a decade or so. The aim is to meet unprecedented passenger growth that has fueled four consecutive years of record high traffic at Lovell Field.

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