Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport officials wish today was any other but April 1.
USA Today and The Economist each ran an April Fools’ Day report that Delta Air Lines was paring down its Atlanta hub to relocate its main operations to Chattanooga. Basing it off of an item from the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, Delta CEO Richard Anderson said the world’s busiest airport “has just become too big and too congested.”
Chattanooga airport spokeswoman Christina Siebold quipped that Lovell Field officials are glad to see Mr. Anderson has seen the wisdom of the city serving as a reliever airfield for the carrier.