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Update: Renaming Nashville International Airport for Dolly Parton

08/26/26

You may indeed soon be “Departin’ from Parton?” Update 8/29/30. It looks like Nashville International Airport (BNA) is moving closer to officially being renamed for Dolly Parton. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee and Nashville International Airport announced their intent to name BNA in honor of Dolly Parton. The celebrated singer, songwriter, philanthropist, actor and smart cookie […]

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Concourse D Extension, Grand Opening Tuesday July 1, 2025, in Nashville, TN.

Fresh art for Nashville International Airport (BNA)

08/05/25

Yesterday, we told you about some of the shopping, dining, and live music spots in the Concourse D extension at Nashville International Airport (BNA). The extended concourse leads to what the airport calls a “record node,” which is a rotunda with access to BNA’s first outdoor terrace, offering views of the airport and downtown Nashville. […]

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Fresh dining & shopping at Nashville Int’l Airport

08/04/25

`The completion of the Concourse D extension at Nashville International Airport (BNA) adds eight new dining, shopping and live music venues to an airport already teeming with great options for passengers and for non-ticketed guests who get a guest pass via the BNA PASSport program. New Heights Cantina & Taqueria (pictured above) offers award-winning local New […]

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Dolly Parton Int’l Airport + more travel tidbits from airports near you

03/26/25

There’s a Change.org petition underway to change the name of Nashville International Airport (BNA) to Dolly Parton International Airport. The petition calls Parton a “national treasure” and a Tennessee legend and points out that Dolly Parton is not only a celebrated artist “who encourages love, acceptance, and goodwill through her music,” but she is also […]

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Greetings from Nashville Intl Airport (BNA)

07/14/24

The Stuck at the Airport team spent the weekend exploring Nashville International Airport (BNA) and testing out the airport’s brand new BNA PASSport gate pass program from our base at the new Hilton BNA Nashville Airport Terminal. The hotel is on the plaza between the terminal and the covered parking garage. Just outside the hotel […]

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Visit this airport, & others, without a plane ticket

07/08/24

This month Nashville International Airport (BNA) joins the list of airports with a guest pass program. The BNA Passport guest pass program allows a non-ticketed guest to go through the TSA security checkpoint like a ticketed passenger into the secure side of the airport. No more than 75 visitor passes a day are being issued. […]

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Fresh art + lots of music at Nashville Int’l Airport

03/17/24

Not for nothing is Nashville, Tennessee known as Music City. And the tunes start right at Nashville International Airport (BNA). There, live performances featuring all manner of musical styles, from traditional and contemporary country to rhythm and blues, jazz, pop, gospel, and bluegrass are presented on stages located near the A/B Waiting Lounge, the C/D […]

Airports celebrate mittens, Peeps, new terminals, and the Super Bowl match-up

01/24/21

We spent the weekend gathering up as many social media postings we could find that featured airport-themed images of Bernie Sanders and his mittens. If you missed that, or want to see what we can up with, find the Stuck at the Airport #BernieMittens meme archive here. You may have also missed our Airport Amenity […]

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Travel Tidbits from an airport near you

07/20/20

Wouldn’t it be nice right now to be making your way to an airport and getting ready to visit a new city or an old favorite? That time will come. For now, here are some tidbits from airports around the country. Pay respects to civil rights icon John Lewis at ATL Airport In April 2019, […]

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