Nashville’s professional music makers know what it takes to turn chaotic cacophony into flowing harmonies. But even they might learn something about synchronicity from BNA Vision, the $1.4-billion expansion program underway at Music City’s international airport.
Named for the Nashville airport code, the collection of bond-funded terminal, garage and other facility projects that launched in 2017 aims to accommodate a sustained double-digit trend in passenger volume that was only briefly stunted by the coronavirus pandemic. In July, fourteen months after the virus all but grounded air travel nationwide, BNA’s average departure counts had surged past 2019 levels, with more than 25,000 passengers boarding outbound flights each day.