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BNA is Berry Field. We've never had an airport called Bates. It's been McConnell, Sky Harbor, and then Berry Field(The reason the former weren't used for the code is because prior to the three terminals that have existed at the current location the airport not only switched terminals but parts of town.) Hope that clears it up and interests somebody because it interests me. ... View more

I think that when you decide who your Latin America/Carribean partner is that you should use Nashville as one of your gateways. Frontier was able to support nonstop Cancun traffic for several years using only O&D traffic and if you had the kind of feed possibilities that Southwest does I think you could really make it work. American had planned to do this pre-Miami with Nashville & RDU so you could do it with Nashville & BWI. I'll also add that we're not too different from Charlotte in population size and that's happned there. Just thinking out loud......Then again if you were to go Atlanta(and give us an alternative to DL since the situation is similar to DEN in everything up to and including the airport layout and you've succeeded with flying colors there and Delta and AirTran are weak and cutting back and you have better customer service) I suppose that would be a good place too although I'd prefer to have an ATL route and have the gateway in Nashville since I live here and think I just made a pretty good case for it. ... View more

Thanks for checking on our gate updates in Nashville! Don't get me wrong.....they're not rundown or anything...but I was just curious. I totally understand about LIT, SDF, and PBI. I've always suspected it was the connecting traffic that kept those afloat anyway but it never hurts to throw 'em out there...lol. I found your General Sherman comment pretty amusing too although I really do believe that yall could provide service there that would be second to none and attract passengers if you did. We love Southwest in Nashville and would've have been lost if yall hadn't come in after American like you did when we needed you! ... View more

It's great that you're bumping up the frequencies on some flights from Nashville but how about more cities from Nashville. We really need nonstop or some kind of real long standing direct service to PBI, RSW, and IND. These along with LIT and SDF are all cities that Nashville had for a long time either with our American Airlines hub, Delta, US Airways, or Corporate Express and have since lost. I'd also like to encourage you to look at Atlanta. I realize that it is a big Delta and AirTran hub but in this day in time how is that any different for you than expanding in Denver with United and Frontier(AirTran's marketing partner)?? Nashville hasn't had an alternative to Atlanta over Delta since Eastern and Valujet which have long since gone away and could use one. You could also look at Chattanooga as an alternative to Atlanta since it is so close although like I said I see no reason why you couldn't just march in to Atlanta itself if you wanted to and really be successful. I'd also like to inquire as to why as of March you still hadn't really done much of a transformation of Nashville's gates to the new setup aside from simply pulling the little A,B, & C signs down and giving us cheap black and white number signs attached what looks like temporary movable metal poles. You've given us kind of a glass ceiling in terms of never going above a certain flight count in Nashville and removing a city every time you add one and letting your gates get older and not updating them(ie. We have don't have the digital/electronic gate podiums or the nice permanent number posts or the TV screens that are supposed to go with them that most other cities our size do). I realize that you don't regularly reply to these but it would be nice if you would in this case. ... View more

*Why haven't Nashville's gates been completely re-done yet?...i.e. we have new numbering posts for the new process but they seem temporary and the new seating and television monitors and the other stuff that's supposed to there according to the renderings haven't shown up. *Does Southwest actually have a set list of "Focus Cities" since the term is always thrown around outside or do you truly not have any focus cties or hubs or anything? This information is nowhere to be found on the website and it would be nice to have someone from Southwest specifically address the focus city question since it is always skirted around. ... View more