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I’d be interested to see the population and density of the pre-consolidation Nashville city limits. It would obviously be a much higher population density but I’m not sure what percentage of the population of Nashville nowadays lives in areas like Madison, Bellevue, Hermitage, and Bellevue that didn’t used to be in the city proper.

Incredible. Thanks so much for this!

The 747 has always been my favorite aircraft. Beautiful bird. I’m saddened to see the end of the line. The good thing is, we should see them flying for another 40+ years as freighters. There’s still occasional cargo DC-8s flying out there and they haven’t been built in more than 50 years, along with DC-3’s from the ‘30’s and ‘40’s still flying around the arctic and Caribbean. No other freighter offers the capacity or nose-door capability of the 747 freighters so they’ll fill a niche for a very long time.

He’s had an extremely eventful tenure, and one that I’m sure has exhausted him. The time before he was elected feels like a lifetime ago due to all the massive events that have happened over the past 4 years.

Yes, it would be useful to know how many of the passengers that Republic and Skywest fly are being flown as Delta Connection, American Eagle, or United Express.

It’s quite amazing considering how much Nashville and its surrounding areas have exploded the past 15 or so years how little United cares to be competitive here.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/on-the-rise/it-feels-like-a-real-airport-in-a-real-city-nashville-international-airport-opens-grand-lobby-to-first-travelers Article about the opening of the lobby, the rest of BNA vision, and the new horizons plan that is to follow (or whatever the name for it is). Interesting that their new goal is 135 destinations. I’m having a hard time imagining where he could be thinking of, unless Southwest or someone is planning a major Caribbean/Central American route expansion.

^ I’m amazed that the Drury Plaza in Franklin has that many rooms. I never considered it that large of a hotel. Maybe it’s because the windows are so large that it disguises how many floors there are.

I tried to grab a decent picture from a taxiing southwest plane this afternoon, and this is the best I got. It’s the satellite concourse, airfield side. I tried to grab a picture from the terminal side but didn’t have the angle. They’re making great progress!

It could have been quite a bit. Just looking at previous years there is normally a slight dip in numbers from November to December, but this Nov-Dec 2022 saw more than a 200,000 passenger drop. That’s twice what any previous year saw from this period, from what the chart tells us.

Has Atlas been flying the 748 to BNA much recently? I knew they were using the 744’s once or twice a week but I didn’t know we’d get -8 service. I’ve only seen a 748 once in Nashville and I can’t recall when it was or what airline but I was driving and saw it in front and above me on its approach and was astounded about how big it was. I pulled over in a parking lot and watched it until it was out of sight.

It took moving out of Davidson county for me to truly appreciate the Nashville public library system. Well, that and the library system closing for like a year and a half due to Covid before I moved out. Aside from having a massive selection of books, it was always super convenient and well appreciated how many activities they have for kids. Which comes in handy, especially in the winter when playing outside isn’t always an option. Many times I’d be stuck inside with the kids on a cold or wet day and salvaged the day by going online and finding a random midweek story time at like the Donelson or Hadley Park branches. I love where I live now but there’s only one branch, an absurdly small number of books, limited hours, and a single midweek story time and activity hour for kids.

I could be mistaken but I think this is a resumption of a route they used to fly. I seem to remember them flying this route around 2016-2018, somewhere in there.

I’m guessing Franklin, Hendersonville, and Gallatin’s populations are swallowed by Nashville’s in this? Curious that Williamson and Sumner counties would be subsumed but Wilson and Rutherford would not.

Dang it, I return from my next work trip on the 20th! Maybe they’ll open it early? Like a soft opening?

For me living in a 20 story building in Wilson county would be the worst of both urban and suburban worlds. You sacrifice space to live in a city due to the fun and conveniences of urban life, and you sacrifice the convenience and urban fun to have space in the suburbs. Having urban space in a suburban environment would be a bummer to me. It would be like living in one of those hotels near the airport or something. Just my opinion, though.

I work closely with MNPD personnel. It’s primarily high retirements, low incoming class quality (lots of dropouts), and people just deciding to leave for something easier. They have mandatory overtime requirements due to the officer shortages which makes each of these much worse, too. They feel like they get no political support and the work they put in doesn’t matter since so many felons plea down to virtually nothing. Nobody is as demoralized as a detective who put in months of work to build a case for a class A felony and then watches the DA give the guy a Class E in a plea deal, and then sees that the same felon killed someone 3 years later. Each has his or her own reasons but almost every one of them I meet on their way out the door for the last time says something about “not having to deal with this s### anymore” The pay and benefits are decent but most of the officers are educated nowadays, these aren’t your 1950s Irish flatfoots anymore. They have other options.

Ah, those country music hotbeds of Delaware and New Hampshire! This is fascinating, thank you for posting!

In the coffeehouse there’s a thread called “UP Technical Support Question” with the last post from July 19. In it I instructed how to block (or hide, more accurately) posts from a particular poster.

I have three kids under 5 years old and we had an adventure science center membership from the time our oldest was almost 2 until a couple of months ago (we just live too far away now to make it worth it), and they’ve always loved it. They have a ton of activities for all ages so they always found something to do. Just a few weeks ago we went there for a huge “touch-a-truck” event where all sorts of emergency, utility, and construction vehicles were available for the kids to climb into, crawl around, honk the horns, etc. During Covid they closed parts of it so it became a bit lamer but it was still worth the membership. That being said, I’d love for another childrens museum to open in Nashville. Lots of parents have memberships to these places, like the adventure science center, zoo, etc; and added to a yearly entertainment/education budget for youngsters a couple of hundred dollars for one more museum ain’t too bad. Just from my personal experience, there can always be more kids stuff available. Especially during the colder months when playing outside isn’t always a possibility.

I don’t think there is upon booking, but if you use an app like FlightRadar24 you can see info on the plane maybe 36 hours before the flight. Then you can click the picture to go to a site to read info on the plane itself. The first pic is of a state plane (Arizona 1) that will be departing tomorrow evening from BNA to AUS. The second is the information about the aircraft from the embedded link to JetPhotos.

Same. I may just be lucky but the longest I’ve ever had from arriving at the door to getting past security was like 35 minutes, and that included checking bags.

Press the menu icon in the top right (three horizontal lines), then Account, then Ignored Users. You can add users there. Instead of seeing their posts your see something saying that they posted but you’ve chosen to ignore, and you have the option of showing an individual post. note: I’m using safari on an iPhone. Not sure if the desktop experience, or another browser, is any different.

I’m actually kind of glad to see this. Flair announced this route first and it always seemed like the WestJet-owned Swoop was just coming in to pick off a poorer competitor. Flair will have this route to themselves for now, which helps their long-term viability in the BNA market.

I liked that they removed the downvote option but everything else was kind of lame. And really the laughing one, if not used in an actual humorous situation, is a more douchy version of the downvote.