Chattanooga airport and Volkswagen officials have talked about more air links than the nonstop to Detroit unveiled this week by Delta Air Lines.
Nonstops from Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport to Houston and Washington, D.C.’s Dulles International Airport are a pair of flights on the radar screen of local VW officials.
“VW is certainly an international company listened to very carefully by the airline industry,” said Tom Edd Wilson, the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive.
Direct flights between Chattanooga and Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport would permit VW officials easy access to Puebla, Mexico, where the German automaker employs almost 15,000 workers in assembly and drivetrain production facilities.
Also, a number of supplier companies providing parts to the new midsize sedan to be made in Chattanooga operate in and around Puebla.