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The problem with the parking is the rates go from $0 for 14 or 19 minutes all the way up to the daily rate. That's why the arrival lanes are a mess every day, it's not financially feasible to park for 45 minutes to pick someone up. Pre-pandemic, my family would greet me and we'd pay $4, maybe $8 to get out. When it went to $22 we said no more. It's also an extremely substandard product having to funnel down an escalator and go through what equates to the in door at a publix. Hourly rates and/or first 60 minutes free would make a world of difference in the arrival lanes. They're not interested in passenger experience, they're interested in making money.

Some saucy tidbits from the board minutes last month: -24,307 average enplanements through mid January, which sustained would equal 8% growth over fiscal year 2019 traffic. -Satellite concourse is way over budget based on current estimates. Like more than 33% over budget. -TARI project is way over budget based on current estimates, nearly 30% over budget. -Parking fees going up, again. Scumbags.

Spirit and frontier have a combined 7 departures today, two to Orlando. That's as many as Allegiant has on their own. They could each take one gate and under utilize it and have six left over for a bigger carrier. Might make sense to put Alaska, JetBlue, and British Airways as they all codeshare with American and keep them close, but that's only another 5 or 6 departures a day. United take the other 4/5 gates?

Frontier and Spirit merging is interesting, I wasn't aware both airlines were using MCO in Orlando and not Sanford. Will be interesting to see if Allegiant responds locally and on which routes.

Which begs the question why the utility plant was built on the other side of D-6. Hopefully they do what DCA did and build up over and around it instead of that scrawny walkway in the designs posted to date with turns to another 5 gates.

The ridiculous parking fees for the garages need to come down. My family would pay $4 or $8 to greet me in the terminal instead of trying to do curbside, but with the fee jumping from $0 to $20 at minute 20, it's just not sustainable. I've also noticed you can take an immediate left inside the valet facility and get out with no gates or personnel, but I imagine after awhile once a few people try to do their drop offs and pick ups from down there, jersey wall or bollards will go up.

If anyone is in the south terminal soon, keep an eye out for a barista with pink hair and show them this: https://www.reddit.com/r/nashville/comments/rurzkq/if_anyone_knows_a_pink_hair_barista_with_colorful/

A sneak peek inside the Puckett's between D-3 and 4. This is the view from D-4 towards 3. I'd say it's gonna take awhile to wrap up.

To facilitate the other restaurants. There is an overdue 8th and roast going across the hall which brings the C/D coffee scene up to 4 units, not counting places that sell coffee as a beverage but don't specialize in it. I've heard the A/B side is getting a Starbucks Reserve that will be done by the time the reunification of the concourses is complete.

A few updates as I head back to Virginia for the weekend: -Meel, Shake Shack, and Hudson news coming to the C dogleg where Hudson News, Inmotion, and Starbucks formerly resided. Not sure if Meel will serve prepared food, brief research shows that it's a cross between hellofresh and bespoke box. Should be a huge hit as late 20s women head home after a long weekend screaming on Broadway and buying goofy hats. -Airessentials is open across from Urban Juicer. BNA is the world leader in the coveted 3.49 cokes-per-passenger-gate ratio. -Food lines were considerably better but outbound passenger traffic was very light. I am one of 40 on this aircraft.

Departure lanes closed tonight and tomorrow night after 830. I guess the airport and the steel guys dusted off the book of bad ideas just in time for Thanksgiving. Safe travels to everyone on the move this week.

The secure side of the "outer" elbow at C/D, which formerly was a large mural sign for good things to come, is undressed and it looks like new sheetrock. Not sure how much space is between the end of green beans and that wall, but something is happening back there.

Here we go: *View from garage 1 looking at the terminal. Lots of work left to do! *Tennessee Tribune store at the C/D elbow *Bongo Java coming to the small space next to Tootsies adjacent to C-4. *The beer stand, Hudson news, Inmotion, and Starbucks have all ceased to be at the C dogleg. No signage of what's to come but I was incorrect in assuming it would be ole red. This is actively being demo-ed and is very noisy in the gate area. *Airessentials to the other end of the C dogleg across from Urban Juicer *Southernaire to the former relocated fly babies spot between tailgate and C-16 *Ole red coming to the dogleg, ironically give or take where the old stage was with the tv behind it that was usually set to ESPN. Seating area is between the sheetrock for ole red and tailgate. *Opry shop coming to the in line space next to James Avery. Had a lovely dinner at party fowl. There needs to be better signage to delineate between sit down waiting, to go ordering, and to go from the bar. My plane to LAS is an hour behind schedule. I don't miss flying every week!

I have my first flight in 3 months on Friday. If anyone has any special requests for updates in the South Terminal, please let me know. I did a pickup last week and noticed sheetrock up for Puckett's between D-3 and 4.

@UrbanWes03yep, that was from their Facebook post about where to find coffee now. I miss good shake shack. Tried going to the one at McEwen Northside and it was a mess.

The airport announced (via social) that Starbucks in C is closing, but offered up nuggets such as: *"Fugitives Public House" at gate A1. On the website now but don't recall one lick of press about it opening. Surprised there's any investments in A to be honest but perhaps it's just cold stuff and drinks and there was no kitchen buildout. *Bongo Roasting Company to C gates. *Shake Shack to C gates. *Starbucks Reserve to A/B rotunda.

My commiserations for anyone who's had to fly WN the last few days. I'm sure the south concourse was a real treat with all those people and limited space/options. In more pleasant news, British Airways is resuming it's flights between BNA-LHR in December https://www.bizjournals.com/nashville/news/2021/10/12/british-airways-bna-nonstop-resumes.html

Frontier is pulling out of LAX because of that shuttle bus situation in terminal 1.5. I know this will be essentially a terminal A replacement from 23-26 but they're going to have to make one heck of a deal to keep those gates full after 2026.

I can't picture where this is going, unless it's going to replace Starbucks, Hudson, and Inmotion as part of the dog leg, or in the inner elbow between the new T gates and C-5 where Berry Field Bistro used to be. And here's the answer:

We are going to be the coffee capital of the Southwest network presuming "Bongo Java" is coffee, that would be the sixth coffee concept. Not thrilled about the bathrooms, those hand dryers in D are worthless.

Did the article say what was in process? I know we're waiting on Party Fowl, Chick Fil A, Tailgate, 3 Casks, Vino Fiesta, and Puckett's off the top of my head.

Good luck to @Mr_Bondand all the other runners tomorrow!

A minor correction to my precious sleuthing... According to this tweet from Fraport, the "Vino" sign I noticed across from C-12 is not Vino Volo reincarnated, but "Vino Fiesta". Nothing coming up in a few brief google searches so we'll just have to wait and see I suppose.

White ceiling, white walls, white lights, white floors. It needs something else. DCA was my primary airport and it was embarrassingly slow. The screens were never right and it was usually the baggage service clerk shouting at the top of his/her lungs, and even they were wrong half the time. The worst part was there are two smaller (but serviceable) belts on the other side of the wall that never get used when there are 3 or 4 flights that land within 10 minutes of each other. BWI is hot or cold for me.

Hissho Sushi open in the A/B food court. And if the name doesn't sound familiar, this is a non-traditional vendor, it's a brand to associate with grocery store sushi counters and they have a few locations in airports, food courts etc. A welcome addition nonetheless!