Nashville International Airport

Nashville International Airport is the busiest airport in Tennessee and one of the fastest-growing major airports in the United States over the past decade, serving 38 airlines on 219 routes to 128 nonstop destinations. Located 13 km (8 mi) southeast of downtown Nashville at an elevation of 599 ft (183 m), BNA's IATA code preserves the airport's historic name — Berry Field Nashville — chosen in 1937 to honor Colonel Harry Berry, a Works Progress Administration administrator who championed the original airfield's construction. BNA has a unique operational footnote in US aviation history: from 1986 to 1995 the airport was a major hub for American Airlines, which at its peak operated over 200 daily departures before spinning the operation down. The current BNA is not a traditional hub but a high-density origin-and-destination airport, with Southwest Airlines operating its largest non-hub focus city here, followed by strong point-to-point networks from American, Delta, United, Frontier, Spirit, Breeze, and Allegiant. Passenger traffic grew from roughly 12 million in 2013 to over 22 million by the mid-2020s, driven by Nashville's explosive population growth, its ascent as a major music-industry, healthcare, and corporate-relocation center, and the city's cultural tourism appeal. BNA operates four runways — the primary 13/31 at 11,030 ft (3,362 m) and three concrete secondaries (02C/20C, 02R/20L at 8,001 ft / 2,439 m, and 02L/20R at 7,704 ft / 2,348 m) — an unusual runway count for an airport of its traffic size, a legacy of the World War II-era Berry Field that served as a major training base. The 'BNA Vision' capital program, launched in 2016 with an USD 1.5 billion+ budget, delivered a new Concourse D, a Grand Lobby, a consolidated International Arrivals Facility, and terminal expansions to accommodate traffic that has outpaced pre-pandemic projections.