Passenger boardings at the Chattanooga Airport rose nearly 15 percent last year over 2021.
The boardings by 432,312 passengers last year are 21.9 percent below the all-time annual mark before the pandemic - more than half a million boardings in 2019 - but the trajectory for air traffic to return to that level is sharp and clear.
Mike Pare is deputy business editor at The Chattanooga Times Free Press.
