# @chattanooga on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DM-rDqexbHD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32978807-chattanooga-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-08-05T16:00:37.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chattanooga Times Free Press (@chattanooga) — https://gondola.cc/chattanooga

## Caption

Last month, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported that the Chattanooga Airport is the fastest-growing "small hub" airport in the United States this summer. With a 30% increase in seat capacity, the airport has far outpaced the national 4% growth average, according to previous reporting.

Some older readers may remember a similar growth era in the 1960s, at the dawn of the jet age, when a trip to the municipal airport was considered a recreational activity. 

Read more at the link in our bio. 

Photo 1 / Contributed photo from EPB archives / This 1964 photo shows the flight observation deck at the Chattanooga Airport. The deck was a popular place to watch takeoffs and landings. People who remember the era say watching jets at the municipal airport was a popular pastime.

Photo 2 / Contributed photo from EPB archives / An updated restaurant was among the upgrades at the Chattanooga Airport in 1964.

Photo 3 / Contributed photo from EPB archives / This 1964 photo of the gates at the Chattanooga Airport was taken just after major improvements at Lovell Field.

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