BNA set to lose sole St. Louis direct flight

7 Responses to “BNA set to lose sole St. Louis direct flight”

1. B writes
   September 18th, 2009 10:02 am

   So long - last vestiges of TWA. A really dumb merger. Lambert will truly be a ghost airport now.

2. GoldnI writes
   September 18th, 2009 3:18 pm

   I’m really unhappy about this. I go to school in St. Louis but come back to Nashville every few weeks or so. I usually drive but I appreciated having the flight for when I needed it.

3. Pearl Jefferson writes
   September 19th, 2009 2:19 pm

   St.Louis is an unimportant route. The important routes are those to Santa Fe,New Mexico and Aspen,Colorado.

4. myron_monk writes
   September 21st, 2009 7:06 am

   Maybe not as important as, say, NYC or Chicago, but still a large market with many F500 companies. And not to have one n-s route from Nashville is amazing (strange) to me. It’s sad to lose all those flights in the St. Louis airport, but AA never pretended to want TWA for any other reason than its routes and planes. Just as we saw here in Nashville 15 years ago, AA has no interest in building a customer base. Does Southwest see opportunity.

5. willtw writes
   September 21st, 2009 9:52 am

   It is understandable that if the passengers are not there, then the route becomes a loser. Millions of federal and state monies were spent to improve the American AL wing of Nashville airport. Not long after that, the hub moved and flights were canceled or sent elsewhere…Southwest AL came in and took up the slack. This economy is causing lots of businesses to review their position and to cut where necessary, unlike our Mayor who seeks to spend $600+ million on a new convention center that the market will not support…and citizens cannot pay for…….if flights are being cut, why do we need the convention center???? They go hand in glove….

6. townsend writes
   September 21st, 2009 11:10 am

   For short hauls like Nashville to St. Louis, high-speed passenger rail is so much more efficient — especially in the time spent in the station vs. what’s wasted in the airport.

7. Reed writes
   September 24th, 2009 9:48 pm

   One of the problems with American’s hub strategy was that it depended too heavily on connecting passengers to fill their planes. Southwest, on the other hand, primarily valued the number of originating and deplaning passengers a route would generate between specific cities- simply put, if there weren’t enough passengers residing in Nashville willing to fill 270 seats a day to a given city, they would not offer nonstop flights no matter how many connections were offered through the airport. I imagine that Southwest will analyze the number of Nashville passengers who travel to St. Louis each day and determine if the traffic will support the route. If they do initiate flights, chances are it will be cheaper, on-time, and free of that famous American Airlines service with a (horrible) attitude.