[Nashville International Airport Development thread]

Good news, yes ... but to get there will involve time-consuming connections in either Baltimore or Chicago Midway in order to get there. American remains the only carrier flying nonstop to LGA; Continental is nonstop to Newark; Delta is nonstop to JFK.

Glad to see that Southwest's daily nonstops from BNA to both Seattle & Oakland will resume again next month.

I've been waiting on this for years! Southwest to begin service to LaGuardia.

Tennessean

[Nashville International Airport Development thread]

A press release from Southwest Airlines said that the daily nonstops between Nashville and Seattle and Oakland will be resumed effective May 9, 2009.

Apparently both are to be temporarily discontinued in January and resumed in May. I've flow both sectors and they have always been full flights. It is really convenient to have these nonstops to Seattle and the San Francisco Bay area; far easier than a connection.

Starting Jan. of 2009, Southwest will discontinue it's daily nonstops to Oakland and Seattle. They give fuel (which is crap) and their need to grow Denver more as the reasons (more crap). Some believe they are poised to start service non stop from Nashville to their new station at San Fransisco since a large number of BNA travelers were going to San Fran. anyways. We'll see, but I'm not holding my breath. Southwest is having a love fest at Denver and that's all they give a crap about right now. Idiotic, but that's jsut the way it is.

We also saw a decent amount of traffic Sunday with evacuees coming into Nashville from New Orleans. These were USAF sponsored flights.

[Perception of Charlotte Nationwide]

For the vast majority of people I know, Charlotte, NC is just a mid-sized city located somewhere in NC between Atlanta and Washington, D.C. Many don't even seem to know exactly where in NC it is geographically situated -- some even think it is right next to the Raleigh and are surprised when they discover it is right on the border with South Carolina. Charlotte has grown a great deal in the past decade and is very similar to other upcoming cities in the South such as Nashville. None of them are Atlanta, thank God!

When I think of Charlotte, NC I think of NASCAR, Billy Graham, and an airport where I sometimes change planes.

[Signature Tower]

I'm sure you may disagree, but it just appears that you come to the Nashville forum with the hopes that this project will fail. As if it is Nashville vs. some other city.

I wish well for cities like Charlotte, yet I'd like to see this built. I agree, some on here have been "rah, rah"...but what's wrong with that? Isn't it better than being a "negative Nellie?"

It really appears you have a "ha, I told you so" attitude...and it actually comes across as being somewhat anti-Nashville, especially considering that the Siggy thread is where you almost always post. It seems to be your mission to prove us Nashvillians wrong.

I, for one, hope Tony builds something nice on that property.

And...the project is not officially dead...and I'm glad.

Bravo! Very well-stated reply...exactly what I mean about moderator Monsoon's continuing high-handed postings on this topic. Indeed, Monsoon (from Charlotte) always seems to have a negative viewpoint about Signature Tower as if there some sort of wish to see it fail. That is what I mean about it being shocking that is from a UP moderator who most certainly won't be banned for the post. I would expect better commentary from a moderator. Where are the Nashville moderators?

[Signature Tower]

We continue to be proved right here at UrbanPlanet about this tower. We have said here for quite some time the market for luxury condos of this type is gone and probably won't come back and that is why there has been no movement on the Signature tower. Now we have confirmation given that 25 floors of condos are being removed from the project. Remember you read it here first, not in the local press which seems all too willing to take whatever developers say without question or comment.

This is suprising commentary coming from a "moderator" of Urban Planet. The tone of this particulat moderator's posts have been generally negative on this particular project for a long while. I think we would expect more balanced and objective commentary in the moderation.