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Sean blackdog
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Hello, my name Sean. I’m deaf.  I enjoy to read on Unbanplanet. I will post more pics later.  British Airways Dreamliner Boeing 787-9 landed last Sunday evening.  ( 2/L  7,704 feet long runway) 

BnaBreaker
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Airplane photos aren't really my cup of tea either, but may I humbly request we tone down the dramaticism a touch?  This is simply a case of a kind, sincere man who wants to share his photography with

markhollin
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NBJ with coverage of the new terminal: https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2023/01/20/nashville-international-airport-grand-lobby-photos.html Photos courtesy of Martin B. Cherry:

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Pdt2f Burg

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I was glancing at the airport’s Wikipedia page and it lists Philadelphia as having been given mainline service by American Airlines. Does anyone have any more information on this? I know it’s not a reliable source but every once in a while someone updates something on the airport page days before it’s announced. 

Edit: After looking into it apparently at some time AA has upgraded some of the flights to mainline service using their Embraer 190s. So it’s only like a 25 seat increase from the 175’s that usually run that route, but an increase nonetheless. The 190s are going to be phased out pretty soon so I’m guessing the route will use A319’s eventually. Is there that much traffic between the two cities where an upgrade was needed? I didn’t think Philadelphia was that big of a connection center for AA to where we’d need bigger planes than they offer to New York and Chicago. 

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dxfret Whistle-Stop

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I was in Europe on a British Airways flight earlier this week. The December issue of BA’s “High Life “ inflight magazine has a full page notice promoting their new London Heathrow to Nashville nonstop flight starting May 4th. The article features a full color page of the Hatch Show Print poster “Nashville Music City USA”.  Nashville is also listed as a BA destination city on the airline’s route maps. Hopefully the MNAA will also publicize this new nonstop route. 

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22 hours ago, dxfret said:

I was in Europe on a British Airways flight earlier this week. The December issue of BA’s “High Life “ inflight magazine has a full page notice promoting their new London Heathrow to Nashville nonstop flight starting May 4th. The article features a full color page of the Hatch Show Print poster “Nashville Music City USA”.  Nashville is also listed as a BA destination city on the airline’s route maps. Hopefully the MNAA will also publicize this new nonstop route. 

They won't because they seem to not care about new routes or acquiring new routes for the airport. It literally basically said that in the report published on them.

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Rubbish. MNAA may not be the most aggressive in seeking new routes, theft performance in the last 3 years has been admirable. As you know the billion+ expansion includes the planned international terminal with gates for larger planes. I find any report that pans the MNAA’s recruiting misinformed.

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Quite honestly, BNA does not really have to try and recruit that hard. Nashville is it's own brand and making waves in publications read beyond the US. Airlines are ALWAYS looking at each others numbers and ways to capitalize on a clearly successful and booming airport. 

Airlines I know for a fact that have or are actively looking at BNA are WOW, Norwegian, & Spirit to name current non-providers.

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Binbin98 Hamlet

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I was just talking about the problems with the CEO and corruption literally published in the Tennessean and documented in other sources. Like it or not that could make airlines nervous to enter BNA due to incentives possibly being literally stolen and used for profit by individuals. That is why the CEO was fired, and thankfully now there is a new one who hopefully will straighten things out.

Anyways today I was traveling through Heathrow to pick someone up and I saw a gigantic sign hanging from the ceiling promoting the Nashville route. It was also next to other signs promoting other global destinations such as the Seychelles, Qatar etc...

One thing that I also need to say is that of course I hope Nashville gets more international connections in the future (personally I hope for aeromexico to mexico city, Wow Air to Reykjavik, and Condor to Frankfurt), but as of right now Nashville is going to be really well connected due to the convenience and connectivity in Heathrow. All the British Airways flights are in the same terminal meaning that usually connections/layovers take around an hour or so at most, and you can literally go anywhere in Europe, Middle East, Africa and even Asia if you want from the airport. Even summer holiday flights and winter ski holiday flights are doable with one connection (my aunt is going to greece next summer through the British Airways flight and connecting to Athens from Nashville), so have no doubts or worries about lack of connections, Nashville has actually become an International airport.

  

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I've noticed that Southwest hasn't announced any new routes in the last 6 months or so, meaning that we won't see any new destinations start up in the next 6 months or so. We also haven't had any new airline announcements since the BA announcement despite persistent rumors of Spirit coming. I can't help but wonder if that is related to the turmoil that is currently embroiling the airport.   Fortunately, our passenger numbers are strong which mean airlines can't ignore the economic forces that will push increased frequencies and upgauged aircraft. However, I could see them sitting on the sidelines in adding new destinations or stations if the airport leadership is in question.  

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A couple things are at work here:

1, this isn't a very announcement-heavy time of year for new flights as you usually see those pushed in the spring and fall, and even I do not really understand why other than the timing of service commencing is usually 4-8 months after announcement, depending upon airline, route, etc.

2, BNA really doesn't have any spare gate space for new airlines to come in, particularly for int'l flights as most European flights arrive and leave within the same amount of time and the fact we do not have a true, full custom's facility, yet. 

3, Airlines are watching like a damn hawk what is to come with concourse D for the number of gates and also the timeline of those opening. That is obviously extremely critical and once a solid timeframe is announced for it reopening, then we're likely to see some hefty announcements and shuffling of airlines amongst the concourses, as I've mentioned several pages back. 

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