BNA Passenger Numbers Return to Positive Territory

Traffic is up at Nashville International Airport. The one month reversal follows 18 straight months of declines.

Since February of 2008, passenger numbers have fallen every month until now. September figures climbed roughly 3-percent over the same period last year.

Airport chief of operations Monty Burgess says he hasn’t found any irregularities in the passenger numbers, meaning the uptick could be a trend.

“I don’t know that there’s any one single event or activity that can really speak to why the passenger traffic increased.”

Passenger volume is important for the airport because everyone who flies out or changes planes in Nashville is charged a 3-dollar service fee. Burgess says, however, it will take at least two more months of passenger growth for him to call the turnaround a trend.

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