Nashville International Airport Development thread

[NashRugger]

A few 747s have come in for charters, besides the now discontinued China Airlines cargo flights. Nebraska's football team chartered a United 747 in for the Music City Bowl before NYE.

The runways can carry the A380 and even the world's largest plane from Ukraine.

One of the most critical pieces is that if an airline wanted to bring in a 747 or A380, BNA does not have the gate capacity to do so, meaning 2 jetways for enplaning and deplaning. 

[dmillsphoto]

12 minutes ago, NashRugger said:

A few 747s have come in for charters, besides the now discontinued China Airlines cargo flights. Nebraska's football team chartered a United 747 in for the Music City Bowl before NYE.

The runways can carry the A380 and even the world's largest plane from Ukraine.

One of the most critical pieces is that if an airline wanted to bring in a 747 or A380, BNA does not have the gate capacity to do so, meaning 2 jetways for enplaning and deplaning. 

At this point, I'd take A330s and ol' 767s departing BNA on a daily basis.

[WebberThomas4]

2 hours ago, NashRugger said:

even the world's largest plane from Ukraine.

I know it's not the AN225, but I forgot about this from a few months ago.

Edited January 25, 2017 by WebberThomas4

[WebberThomas4]

Interesting tweet from BNA..

[SoundScan]

Hopefully PDX, YVR, or YUL. 

[Will]

Direct charter service to Havana?

[smeagolsfree]

Well forget that. No reason to ever go to Cuba.

[etimer13]

I would love to be able to visit my family in Cuba with nonstop service, but I'm thinking San Juan is more likely.

[BnaBreaker]

Watch it be some place like Bowling Green.  lol

[NashRugger]

I'm thinking service to either Portland (PDX), Montreal, or Vancouver. The outlier would be int'l service on Southwest. 

I'd be stunned if it was British Airways to London-Heathrow, and it'd be coincidence with the announcement earlier this week of the temporary Customs expansion.

[smeagolsfree]

2 hours ago, etimer13 said:

I would love to be able to visit my family in Cuba with nonstop service, but I'm thinking San Juan is more likely.

Hope I didn't offend. There are many places I have no desire to go. You get that way when you get old and worn out.

[BnaBreaker]

2 hours ago, etimer13 said:

I would love to be able to visit my family in Cuba with nonstop service, but I'm thinking San Juan is more likely.

I was hoping to visit Havana just as a tourist, but learned that Americans still can't go just for leisure.  

[volsfanwill]

Actually, all you have to do is say that you are going for "education"  and hire a personal guide while there.  you have to declare the reason for your visit to the State Dept.  but it is basically on the honor system now.  you do have to keep a log book of what you do for a while in case they audit you. but basically, you can do anything but sit on a beach. 

Ive looked into going this year.

[dxfret]

Milwaukee, Portland, London Heathrow.  American Airlines flew BNA to London Gatwick in 1990s.   Or perhaps Norwegian Air or Condor 2-3x week to Europe, or a Mexican airline.

[ruraljuror]

11 minutes ago, dxfret said:

Milwaukee, Portland, London Heathrow.  American Airlines flew BNA to London Gatwick in 1990s.   Or perhaps Norwegian Air or Condor 2-3x week to Europe, or a Mexican airline.

My guess is Canada, Mexico, or a relatively nearby island.  I figure it has to be somewhere international or internationalesque, otherwise why ring that bell in the teaser tweet (unless they have another international destination lined up to be announced in short order). That said, I don't think they'd probably tease 'domestic' if it were a major ocean-crossing international destination, but who knows, that could just be the set up.  I seem to recall this twitter account blowing a few previous announcements out of proportion, so I'm hedging my excitement and hoping to be pleasantly surprised. 

[titanhog]

Non-stop to Paris...Texas.  Or London...Ontario.

[samsonh]

Flight to Montreal would be wonderful. 

[LA_TN]

Calgary or Vancouver. Speculation

[Hey_Hey]

The "could be international or domestic" part is interesting.  On the surface, it would be either/or.  However, I'm leaning toward this being something of a riddle. This could be a nonstop flight to somewhere with continuing service to an international destination.  The one that jumps to the forefront of my mind is Alaska Airlines to Portland with continuing service to Vancouver. That way the flight could be "international or domestic" depending on where you get off.  

Less likely than that, but still possible, would be San Juan which is kind of domestic and kind of international. Technically the plane would be leaving the US, but the plan wouldn't actually be going to another country. 

[dxfret]

Highly doubtful that it will be San Juan as American flew nonstop BNA to SJU during the hub days of the 1990s, so that is not a new destination.  If international, it will hopefully be British Airways to London Heathrow, with a similar schedule (3-4 X per week) as recently announced for New Orleans. Domestic nonstop service gaps are Milwaukee and Portland, OR.

[AUNash]

Wouldn't be London would it, given that American had a flight to London in the 90s?

[Lexy]

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.

[MLBrumby]

I like how you think. Hope you're right! 

[NashRugger]

It's WestJet to Calgary beginning May 4th. It's only twice a week for now, which is respectable for a route with no history to really go off of.

It'll also be on a 737. They are the Southwest of Canada and follow a similar business model.

Edited January 30, 2017 by NashRugger

[bhibbs]

On 1/27/2017 at 3:33 PM, etimer13 said:

I would love to be able to visit my family in Cuba with nonstop service, but I'm thinking San Juan is more likely.

hoping I can go with my wife at some point, she is first generation American born Cuban.