Nashville International Airport PHOTOS (BNA), Airlines and Flights General discussion

[Sean blackdog]

Today this evening. Titans send Dolphins back to Fort Lauderdale by Atlas Air Boeing 747-400. 

Edited January 3, 2022 by Sean blackdog

[Binbin98]

9 hours ago, Sean blackdog said:

Today this evening. Titans send Dolphins back to Fort Lauderdale by Atlas Air Boeing 747-400. 

Titans beat us badly for once !

[bigeasy]

3 hours ago, Binbin98 said:

Titans beat us badly for once !

Wasn't it Miami (possibly the last time we played them) where the game lasted like 7 hours due to weather?

[markhollin]

Courtesy of Aerial Innovations Southeast:

[21jump]

On 1/3/2022 at 6:50 AM, bigeasy said:

Wasn't it Miami (possibly the last time we played them) where the game lasted like 7 hours due to weather?

Not sure if it was the last time, but yes.

[Sean blackdog]

Today this evening. 
British Airways will not come to BNA today, cause of snow all day.
Diverting to IAD Washington. All passengers drop off & return to London tonight. 

[Sean blackdog]

British Airways 223 arrived at IAD Washington. 

[nashscan]

On 1/4/2022 at 7:14 AM, markhollin said:

Courtesy of Aerial Innovations Southeast:

How did they get this amazing shot??

[markhollin]

Learn something new every day: Had no idea the Smyrna Airport handled international flights from Tokyo 50 years ago; nor that an airline called Capitol Airways was based there.

From today's Tennessean:

A Capitol International Airway "stretch" DC8, which completed the first non-stop flight from Tokyo to Smyrna, is easily contained by a huge hangar at Smyrna Airport where Capitol maintenance crews are giving it a routine check April 2, 1971. The big four-engine jet can accommodate 250 passengers or more than 100,000 pounds of cargo. The company moved it maintenance and operations base to Smyrna, Tenn., on Jan. 13, 1971. The planes will be moving in and out with frequency for maintenance and passengers. There are eight DC-8s in the fleet.

[bnacincy]

Capitol Airways did charter flights. When I was in Junior High School at what is now West End Middle School Metro schools chartered a Capitol Jet to fly  French language students to Paris for a few days.

[Sean blackdog]

GM everyone. If u have free time go to north cargo at BNA. 

Edited January 9, 2022 by Sean blackdog

[Sean blackdog]

Takeoff now. 

[Sean blackdog]

Volga-Dnepr Airline Antonov An-124 landed 1:47pm from Goose Bay, Canada.

 

Parking @ lots of north cargo next to FedEx Express. 

 

Edited January 10, 2022 by Sean blackdog

[Sean blackdog]

Breaking news from London. 
https://simpleflying.com/ba-us-route-changes/

Last flight on Sunday January 16th. 
Resume on Monday May 9th. 

Edited January 10, 2022 by Sean blackdog

[Binbin98]

On 1/10/2022 at 2:03 PM, Sean blackdog said:

Breaking news from London. 
https://simpleflying.com/ba-us-route-changes/

Last flight on Sunday January 16th. 
Resume on Monday May 9th. 

It’s sad to see important routes like this be cut but I believe it will be back for the summer. I think airports like Pittsburgh and New Orleans are more at risk for losing their London link than Nashville.

meanwhile here in Miami British Airways is flying in their A380 and Emirates (which launched in July) is going daily with A380 I believe. 

[Pdt2f]

10 minutes ago, Binbin98 said:

It’s sad to see important routes like this be cut but I believe it will be back for the summer. I think airports like Pittsburgh and New Orleans are more at risk for losing their London link than Nashville.

meanwhile here in Miami British Airways is flying in their A380 and Emirates (which launched in July) is going daily with A380 I believe. 

BA flew the A380 to MIA pre-Covid, along with I believe LF and AF. MIA is a huge international gateway. 

[Nathan_in_DC]

On 1/7/2022 at 5:58 AM, nashscan said:

How did they get this amazing shot??

Probably taken from a helicopter or small GA aircraft flying to the east of the airport with a powerful zoom lens. 

[Sean blackdog]

Today this evening. 
British Airways landed at BNA. 
Last day of flight, suspended until May 9th. 2022, because of Covid-19. 

[Sean blackdog]

Today this evening.  

Edited January 19, 2022 by Sean blackdog

[jmtunafish]

You guys are a lot smarter than I am, so I'm hoping someone can explain to me why Raleigh-Durham International Airport, which is half the size of BNA, now has nonstop service to three European cities while BNA has just one?  American flies from RDU to London-LHR, Delta flies from RDU to Paris-CDG, and now Icelandair has announced it will fly from RDU to Reykjavik.  Is the only reason BNA doesn't have more trans-Atlantic service because we don't have adequate gate and immigration facilities?  Or does RDU pay lavish incentives that BNA doesn't pay?

For those of us who love traveling to Europe, it's frustrating to see places like Raleigh-Durham get more service.  I'd love for Icelandair to come here.  Great fares to lots of European destinations, and often you can get a nice, extended overnight stay in Reykjavik for just a few dollars.

Rant over.

[Pdt2f]

1 hour ago, jmtunafish said:

You guys are a lot smarter than I am, so I'm hoping someone can explain to me why Raleigh-Durham International Airport, which is half the size of BNA, now has nonstop service to three European cities while BNA has just one?  American flies from RDU to London-LHR, Delta flies from RDU to Paris-CDG, and now Icelandair has announced it will fly from RDU to Reykjavik.  Is the only reason BNA doesn't have more trans-Atlantic service because we don't have adequate gate and immigration facilities?  Or does RDU pay lavish incentives that BNA doesn't pay?

For those of us who love traveling to Europe, it's frustrating to see places like Raleigh-Durham get more service.  I'd love for Icelandair to come here.  Great fares to lots of European destinations, and often you can get a nice, extended overnight stay in Reykjavik for just a few dollars.

Rant over.

I think it’s a combination of factors. AA has been flying LHR (and LGW before the Open Skies agreement) for years, I think back to the days when RDU was an AA hub. They’re a focus city for DL now, but I believe the CDG flight preceded that move. One thing I think explains some of it is that RDU is a huge business market but marginal tourism market, while BNA is a big tourism market and a decent business market. Business travel is higher yielding so it may be worth it to AA and DL to run those routes simply because of the first and business class sales. Tourism traffic back and forth between London and Nashville is typically more price minded because tourists are typically more likely to be on a tighter budget. 
 

As far as the Icelandair flight, I’ve personally never been that impressed with KEF flights, either with Icelandair or with the defunct WOW Air. It’s basically just a connection point with horrible connection times. It’s still the same amount of time to get to London, Paris, etc but instead of having 50 options to connect through ATL, JFK, IAD, BOS, EWR, ORD, CLT, PHI, etc you have an overnight 10 hour layover in a country a third of the population of Nashville. Going to Reykjavik would be cool on it’s own, but as a connecting option it’s piss poor. 
 

Just my two cents. 

[Sean blackdog]

Today this evening. 
New airlines. 
Maybe nonstop flight to BNA from Anchorage? 

https://thepointsguy.com/news/northern-pacific-airways-boeing-757-reveal/

[carolina1792]

11 hours ago, jmtunafish said:

You guys are a lot smarter than I am, so I'm hoping someone can explain to me why Raleigh-Durham International Airport, which is half the size of BNA, now has nonstop service to three European cities while BNA has just one?  American flies from RDU to London-LHR, Delta flies from RDU to Paris-CDG, and now Icelandair has announced it will fly from RDU to Reykjavik.  Is the only reason BNA doesn't have more trans-Atlantic service because we don't have adequate gate and immigration facilities?  Or does RDU pay lavish incentives that BNA doesn't pay?

For those of us who love traveling to Europe, it's frustrating to see places like Raleigh-Durham get more service.  I'd love for Icelandair to come here.  Great fares to lots of European destinations, and often you can get a nice, extended overnight stay in Reykjavik for just a few dollars.

Rant over.

 

Business travel. RTP is very popular with European tech and pharma companies. 

Also RDU offers 'new destination' incentives to carriers.  Rumors are that Aer Lingus is interested in a RDU-Dublin route as well. 

Thirdly, Raleigh/Durham is a shorter route to Europe,  has almost exactly the same population as Nashville when comparing CSA (Nashville 2,118,233 vs R/D 2,106,463), is located around several other big metros (Charlotte, NC Triad, VB),  and the metro population is slightly growing faster too. 

Edited January 19, 2022 by carolina1792

[Sean blackdog]

Today this evening. 
National Airlines Cargo  Boeing 747-400 takeoff to Dover, DE. 

[Pdt2f]

1 hour ago, Sean blackdog said:

Today this evening. 
National Airlines Cargo  Boeing 747-400 takeoff to Dover, DE. 

This beauty is a former Air France bird, delivered in 1991 and converted to cargo in 2011. I personally love the National livery. The aluminum and blue really pop and shine, and I love how the little aluminum lines fan out and cover almost the entire vertical stabilizer.