Lexy wrote:Bluegrass60 wrote:Midwestindy wrote:
"Business market is large"...... really?? compared to where? SDF doesn't even have service to BOS, LAX, SFO, SEA, e.t.c
What does Nashville offer? A business market that can sustain multiple nonstop flights to all major US business market, in addition to a tourism market and a fast growing city
What does Indy offer? A business market with large corporate travel spenders, that can sustain multiple nonstop flights to all major US business market, in addition to a large convention market
"IND just lost AS service to SFO...Louisville has large corporations as well dude and the city is working to attract NS to BOS, LAX, SFO and SEA. Louisville also is a Tier One convention city...just like Indy and Nashville.
Louisville is larger and more vibrant today than Nashville was in the 90's. Nashville's growth is slowing and will continue to slow as cost of living grows and traffice gets worse. BNA traffic would be 40% less if WN did not operate a focus operation there.
Nashville's growth isn't slowing. That's a fact. Over 15,000 hotel rooms planned along with a number of high profile commercial projects underway downtown says otherwise. As to your statement about passenger numbers, that's pure conjecture on your part. Like I said, Louisville isn't in the same league. SDF can't even get service to the west coast for crying out loud.
"Dude....according to the US Census...Nashville's growth is cooling. There is a huge amount of development going on in Nashville....the bubble is about to burst. (Cost of living, traffic and over-building are all symptoms of the bust to come...it happens to every city that grows like Nashville has grown). Conjecture about passenger numbers? Huh. WN connects at least 3-4M passengers per year at BNA. None of this is anti-Nashville. It is facts."