Lexy

I'm really excited about these new renderings.

Before long, you'll be able to jump from one 23 story roof top to another 23 story rooftop and NEVER touch the sidewalk. The entire skyline will look like the Bridgestone Tower and Pinnacle...just one BIG FLAT roofline with absolutely no imagination whatsoever. This has been my beef for a long time. The SoBro height restriction and the unwillingness of developers to design something worth looking at longterm that still remains capable of turning a profit. We are a city full of mid-rises and L-shaped hotels. Tony should be commended for breaking the 500-foot barrier.

Delta has strengthened their position here recently and I look for that to continue as we move forward.

Building fits in with its surroundings so I'm okay with it.

Best looking highrise in the city hands down. NOW, if it was about 20 floors taller, I'd be REALLY happy, but I digress.

Personally, I hope it's right too! AMS is a big hub for SkyTeam Alliance and like you said, DL and KLM/Air France are HUGE there offering a number of destinations from there with considerable ease.

Yeah, I'm at AA. I'm hearing there's some strong possibility with Amsterdam on Delta. I don't know how true that is, but this was confirmed by some interesting info I can't really talk about right now. Also, there's a good possibility we could see another international airline here. Time will tell!

This will open the flood gates so to speak. Just sit back and watch what happens.

I'm not sure what people wanted downtown for shopping instead of an H & M? Were you wanting a Neiman Marcus? How about a Macy's? Grocery store request not withstanding, this is a pretty big deal.

Me personally, I like the wider sidewalks. I think that's a wonderful idea!

New photos, friends. I'm still trying to keep up, but it's not the easiest task. See the entire collection on my Flickr page. Link: www.flickr.com/perspectivephotography To me, this panoramic is a show stopper. Probably gonna frame it honestly.

I would rather not put things out on a public forum. But trust me, there's a lot of mismanagement over there. The MNAA likes to think very highly of themselves with little to brag about in the grand scheme of things. They, unlike our peer cities, are chasing and not leading in the industry.

DTW is a nice airport. Both terminals (Delta and non-Delta terminals) are really nice! The problem with our airport? The Airport Authority. It's real simple. They are as unorganized as a box of lego's and NOBODY in this city has the guts to call them out on it.

Yep, they are moving me out of my parking under A concourse because of construction starting at the end of this month.

Our airport, ramp side, is laid out poorly. Very little room and no chance for double taxiways because of that silly hole between C and B concourse. As for Southwest pushing AA out. Not gonna happen. There will always be a huge demand for premium travel into and out of Nashville. Southwest will not deliver that regardless of price point. They don't even have a club for crying out loud (because they don't have a club product). The one airline that could REALLY come out of nowhere would be Delta or United. American has seemed to have forgotten the importance of Nashville to their network.

Thank you!

Nashville today.

The biggest issue with ORD is the amount of gates in Chicago and the fliers have grumbled about frequency here locally. So, instead of getting a 737 there once every hour and a half, your going to get a CRJ700 ever 45 minutes. ORD is a rolling hub which means it doesn't have flight banks that arrive and depart at a set time. Raleigh supports, oddly enough, mainline service to ORD alongside Austin and other similar cities. I think it's just a Nashville-specific thing that ALL of the Chicago flights are on little regional jets. Most other cities in our size bracket have some form of mainline to both Chicago and Miami on AA. I do know Envoy (who is wholly owned by American Airlines) uses the Chicago flight to bridge a maintenance gap for their aircraft between BNA and ORD. Works well for them! I'm hearing the Embraer 175's maybe coming back to ORD this spring and summer. We'll see.

As an employee of AA, I'd love to see mainline to ORD, but that's a crap shoot. If it happens, that would REALLY help out some things, but I think you'll just see Envoy and maybe Republic ER175's. I'd love to see the source for the news though. EDIT: I hope you're right for what it's worth.

I've always wanted to go and now I may have my motivation! It'll be on their 737-800's which are quite nice from what I've heard.

Frontier and Air Canada have been moved to the B Concourse. Three new jetbridges are replacing three old bridges on A. The temporary IAB was NOT in the initial expansion plan, but was approved without hesitation at the last board meeting. AA served Gatwick, not Heathrow...so technically it's a "different" destination.

Won't happen unless it's subsidized. It's like that at ALL non-hub airports. Nashville wouldn't be an exception to this rule. FWIW, there are already some routes that are funded by outside sources.

Was that really necessary? I don't have a lot of time to type out a long winded response on a phone.

I fully stand behind my OPINIONS of both cities. I've never experienced a positive moment in either one. When this city (Nashville) decides it wants to play with the big boys, then it will get what it should already have (service across the ocean). Until then, cities that can afford to take risk will reap the rewards of their hard labor. It takes a village and we've yet to get so sick of connecting in Dallas or Atlanta that we want it bad enough to put money where are mouths are. Business leaders, It's really up to you and the fine folks at the CVB to make this happen. Every other peer city has one-upped you so far. Even those that aren't in the same desirability neighborhood as us.

If it EVER gets built.