Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2020

Sometimes I’ll take my kids to the Cornelia Fort Park and play “airplane,” where we go to the runway and I sprint while pushing the stroller and push down on the back to lift their legs up, all while making airplane sounds, thus simulating a takeoff. So it’s not completely out of commission as an ai...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2020

Makes you wonder if they should have kept the 733’s in service for a few years longer.

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2020

If 2L is indeed going to be extended over Murfreesboro Pike, what happens to the old Genesco and Johnston and Murphy buildings? They are extremely close. Knight Valley Drive will also have to be rerouted. Genesco would be retained, Johnston and Murphy removed. Knight Valley would be closed as would...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

southwest1675 wrote:

Noticed Alaska has been flying 175s between PDX and BNA recently. Not sure if they’re testing the range for a potential flight, or they’re coming in for maintenance.

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

For anyone intersted these are the frequencies on WN for March m-f Sat Sun aus 3 3 4 atl 5 3 2 bwi 6 5 6 BOS 4 2 2 CHS 1 1 3 CLT 2 1 2 mdw 6 4 7 cle 2 2 3 cmh 2 2 2 dal 6 5 6 den 6 6 5 dtw 3 2 1 fll 5 8 7 hou 4 3 5 jax 3 3 3 mci 4 3 4 las 3 4 4 lax 3 2 3 mke 2 2 2 msp 2 1 1 msy 4 3 5 lga 4 3 4 oak ...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

I think we’re getting a tad ahead of ourselves here. Once A gets built to an L shape, BNA should be set. Instead of a new terminal, I’d expect a satellite terminal built where the expanded apron was recently filled in. You would get to it via a tunnel underground. https://www.flynashville.com/about...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Being a lifelong Middle Tennessee resident I welcome the growth. My problem lies with leadership that is just allowing it to all go unchecked. I haven’t seen the budget that just passed but I know the fire and police departments were having budget problems and the public school system is absolutely...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Not big news for most carriers but for UA in June they have 3x daily mainline each to IAD/IAH/SFO, 4x to EWR and a daily to ORD Nowhere near comparable to DL but something... It’s good to see them expanding. Wow, we’ll have 4 dailies to SFO this summer, plus 1x each to OAK and SJC. Pretty good Bay ...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

southwest1675 wrote:

In regards to WN's ATL flights, on average 3 of the 5 leave full.

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Bluegrass60 wrote:

If the LF are as posted by others ....and profitable LF are 80% and above for industry....make your own conclusion

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

BNA-ATL is shorthaul route...not exactly WN's focus these days. WN will drop it UNLESS they further dismantle their ATL operations.....but even then....why anyone in ATL would connect at BNA is beyond my understanding....the only reason is DL flies Nonstop to just about everywhere form ATL Price. F...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Apparently F9 is starting BNA-ORD again on April 30. I swear they’ve started and dropped that route like 10 times. Looks like they’ll be running Sun-Tues-Thurs.

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

I'll ask this again since it seemed to get lost in the shuffle before. Will the new international customs facility that will be built in the center of the airport have a recheck facility to accommodate connecting passengers, or does BNA anticipate all international traffic being O&D? Most of it...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Unlike BNA-ATL, where it is connecting a midsized market to a top 10 market, BNA-IND is a route connecting two mid-sized markets of similar size. As such, I cannot imagine there is a ton of O&D between the cities, so a WN 737 may be too much plane. That said, connections may be needed to make t...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Is anyone else’s OCD alarms going off due to the fact that we were like 4000 short of 16 million?

In all seriousness, great numbers. With business additions, regional population growth, and continued airline investment at BNA its bound to continue rising for some time.

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Does anyone know how many total daily flights BNA will have this summer?

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Just dummy booked one of Sun Country’s LAX flight, it’s a 9:25 PM departure from BNA (11:55 LAX arrival) on a Monday and a red eye back from LAX on a Friday. Cheap, but terrible times. I didn’t try any other times, I don’t have the patience for Sun Country’s terrible mobile website.

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

dafunk10 wrote:

southwest1675 wrote:

16 million passengers in 2018?

They finally updated data for Nov. 1,409,968 passengers for the month, up 15.1% over PY. 14,688,075 Nov 2018 YTD.

I’d say 16M will be surpassed comfortably.

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

BNA is not a focus city for DL, is it? Because we have someone on here that is insisting it is. No it isn’t. What thread? The infamous Detroit thread..... I just read through it. Dude was quoting the headline of an article he obviously didn’t read regarding charitable giving in 2016. We actually ha...

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Fargo wrote:

BNA is not a focus city for DL, is it? Because we have someone on here that is insisting it is.

Re: Nashville Aviation Thread - 2019

Their twitter post about it says 3 destinations, two of them new to BNA. I’d have to say G4. NK would merit one of those “new airline” announcements, and odds are F9 would be offering cheaper service to a pre-served location. Probably like Orlando-Sanford, Phoenix-Mesa, and maybe like Vegas or somet...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

As 2018 comes to a close, any predictions for 2019 air service at BNA? I think WN adding 2-3 new cities is a no brainier. I think PDX will come next year as well. If we had space, Spirit would be adding Nashville. Agreed. WN adding IND, PDX, RIC, and maybe another Florida destination seem like reas...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

Anyone have passenger numbers for November??? Wasn’t able to find anything online....I would imagine we’re still barreling towards 16M for 2018 given all the ‘arrive early we’re expecting abnormally large departures’ warning from BNA twitter They’re typically released late the following month. So l...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

Is F9’s TTN route cut or not? I thought it was ending but I saw today on Enrilia’s OAG thread that it’s back up to a few times per week in May 2019.

Re: OAG Changes 12/2/2018:AM Adds DTW-SLP;DL Cuts DTW-GRU;DY Adds BOS-FCO/MAD;F9 Changes;JJ Drops FOR-MCO;UA Drops PSP-O

Is F9 BNA-TTN not cut? I thought they ended that route.

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

https://www.thedailytimes.com/business/tennessee-city-looks-to-privatize-airport/article_a6c4b15a-1727-5937-8bfd-671e2b63359a.html "Nashville's mayor may privatize the operations of city-owned Nashville International Airport to generate funding for mass transit in middle Tennessee" It’s f...

Re: Southwest Airlines Network Thread 2018

Let’s take an example I did a few weeks ago. I left home (~10 miles west of BNA) around 1150 for a 1345 flight. I was through security around 1225 and had a glass of wine and lunch in the Admiral’s Club, along with 40 minutes or so of work. We then boarded, left roughly on time, and blocked in in A...

Re: Southwest Airlines Network Thread 2018

Even though the load factors on the WN BNA-ATL nonstops is only 53.9%, WN was operating 5 daily nonstops in each direction between BNA and ATL in August 2018, and there are at least 715 seats available in each direction between BNA-ATL in August 2018. 143 seats (# of seats available on WN's 737-700...

Re: JetBlue CEO: JVs stifle competition

I get the point of the thread, however... It is interesting that jetBlue is now suddenly the defender of "independent competition in the market" given their recent attempt to takeover Virgin America. Also, they don't even have the A321LR on order. Much ado about nothing until they put up ...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

Cheerleaders....if any of you truly believe BNA has grown 60% with passenger volume due only to growth in O&D....and is able to support nonstops to all the destinations with frequencies that BNA now enjoys....I guess pot has been legalized in TN or wherever you live. BNA O&D is likely @10-1...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

By the way, I was dummy booking to check prices and I don’t know if it’s because of a new flight sale or something but BNA-BUR is insanely cheap compared to BNA-LAX on the days I checked - like almost half the price. The yields may be terrible but if those prices hold they’ll have no problem filling...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

BNA-BUR could never...ever be supported by O&D between those cities....there is not that much entertainment industry traffic. This route feeds into WN connections at BNA You can’t just look at previous numbers for the route because a lot of people who would have flown it just flew BNA-LAX becau...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

On the entire issue of bna atl, I wouldn’t write off wn so soon. Bos atl has been a bloodbath since b6 entered but both airlines have stuck with their capacity with no signs of giving up. If this was truly a route that Nashville business demanded, wn will keep eating the losses. From what I can see...

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

I didn’t realize this will only be BUR’s 4th location east of the Mississippi, with ATL on DL to follow as the 5th a month later. The others are MDW, BOS, and JFK. Kind of impressive that we’re one of such a select group of eastern cities serviced from a California airport.

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018

Great news! Awesome to see WN investing so much at BNA. Great to get some more California service.

Re: What's Going On In Nashville? - 2018