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Dallas, Texas, August 14, 2023 \u00a0<\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Southwest Airlines Co.<\/strong>\u00a0(NYSE: LUV<\/a>) today furthered its commitment to Music City by announcing the\u00a0addition of a Crew Base at\u00a0Nashville International Airport (BNA)\u00a0in the second quarter of 2024. Nashville will become the 12th Crew Base in the Southwest\u00ae system with approximately 150-250 Pilots, growing to 500-600 Pilots, and an estimated 500-700 Flight Attendants based in the new Crew location beginning in 2024, with continued growth planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southwest Airlines\u00ae began service to BNA on March 18, 1986, with eight daily nonstop departures to Chicago (Midway) and Houston (Hobby). Since then, it’s grown to operate more flights and serve more air Passengers as the largest carrier at BNA, offering up to 166 departures a day to 57 cities nonstop, and currently housing nearly 1,000 Southwest Employees. To support the carrier’s commitment to Nashville, the airline is striving to add four gates in the fourth quarter of 2023 to support its operation with a goal of 20 gates total by the end of the year to serve future Customers flying in and out of Nashville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2016, the airline unveiled\u00a0Tennessee One<\/a><\/em>, a specialty aircraft emblazoned with an artist’s rendition of the Tennessee State flag, as a tribute to the state of Tennessee. Southwest additionally started service to Memphis International Airport on Nov. 3, 2013, and now offers up to 14 departures a day to 10 cities nonstop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dallas, Texas, August 14,2023 \u00a0\u2013\u00a0Southwest Airlines Co.\u00a0(NYSE: LUV) today furthered its commitment to Music City by announcing the\u00a0addition of a Crew Base at\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10172,10174,797,4813,3965,89,5637,13618,8222,10339,5992,5670,2203,5500,5676,10366,10169,10176,1397,10173,8970,10195,10171,868,10182,1103,6774],"tags":[7816,539,464,420,118,92,3790,5233,9757,4995,160,1002,4033,988,1925,82,2286,3954,4512,3353,766,6475,2837,595,6882,2152,660,482,3973,197,348,2725,199,1843,6946,1429,634,10364,4182,906,718,412,4452,1401,618,5519,3783,187,15614,7344,186,1634,3104,1177,5054,190,1691,1658,1916,7244,6846],"class_list":["post-12089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-airline","category-airline-news","category-airplane-news","category-airport-news","category-aviation-news","category-business-news","category-communications-news","category-consumer-news","category-e-commerce","category-economic-news","category-economy-news","category-finance-news","category-frequent-flyer-news","category-international-news","category-low-cost-carrier","category-news","category-stock-news-2","category-stock-news","category-stockairline","category-texas-news","category-transport","category-transportation","category-transportation-news","category-travel","category-travel-news","category-union-news","tag-7816","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airline","tag-airlines","tag-airport","tag-announces","tag-artist","tag-attendants","tag-august","tag-aviation","tag-base","tag-bna","tag-business","tag-carrier","tag-chicago","tag-city","tag-commitment","tag-communications","tag-crew","tag-dallas","tag-departures","tag-economic","tag-economy","tag-employees","tag-flag","tag-flight","tag-flights","tag-gates","tag-hobby","tag-houston","tag-illinois","tag-international","tag-largest","tag-location","tag-luv","tag-memphis","tag-midway","tag-music","tag-nashville","tag-new","tag-news","tag-nonstop","tag-nyse","tag-one","tag-operate","tag-passengers","tag-pilots","tag-rendition","tag-serve","tag-southwest","tag-state","tag-support","tag-system","tag-tennessee","tag-texas","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-tribute","tag-unveiled"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12092,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12089\/revisions\/12092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}