Aer Lingus Launching Nashville Flights As Of April 2025

Yippie! Nashville is becomming a great airport and is aggresively improving daily. It provides an option from crowded atl with many carrier options. this new service from Air Lingus and Icelandair is exciting. Hopefully more information as it becomes available with be presented. I for one, am very interested since this region seems to be safest from all the political nonsense going on in todays world.

I think the view from Europe is different from the states. A- Ireland is an island. Its air links are vital, particularly to Europe. B-To secure strong European links, it needs incoming tourists and transit tourists from Europe to fill its planes on European routes. C- Nashville is an emblematic place (at least in France), singers go there to record. But hardly anyone goes there. And Ireland has a big music tradition too. D- America has a special relationship with Ireland due to strong origin links. American tourists love going to Ireland. If you combine A B C D, you can expect planes to be filled up nicely. Some transiting, some stopping.

"With both Aer Lingus and Icelandair launching flights to Nashville, I have to imagine that the airport and local community are offering some significant incentives, since it’s otherwise unusual to see so much transatlantic growth so quickly." This is my question as well. Not all Europeans are looking for a mile of country music bars and I'm pretty sure most of those who play there can't afford the extra seat to bring their guitar to the other end of the pond (and back, hopefully). In fact, Dublin has quite a bit to offer with the Temple Bar District. Are we missing something extraordinary happening in Tennessee? I haven't seen much advertising or news about Nashville in Europe at all. I'm also pretty sure that Nashville isn't clogged with 'Irish heritage' Americans who suddenly got 'homesick' and manage to fill Airbusloads of tourists to Dublin year round. It definitely doesn't have enough people with Icelandic roots to do so... And, honestly, Dublin is some sort of a hellhole of an airport. Highly inefficient, severely understaffed, way too small for what it tries to be and clogged with Ryanair passengers. No one should be doing flight connections there voluntarily, especially not with the limited connections Aer Lingus offers. So I guess offering to and from the rest of Europe is a bit off the table as well. I'm still puzzled. The only thing I can imagine is that two airlines had the same epiphany at the same time, purely coincidental.

Nashville is a white-hot city for music (and I say this hating country—which is taking unlikely places by storm, having sat through 2 hours of it at an otherwise mainstream Toronto bar last weekend) that has done a great job in the Austin model of marketing itself as a stag/hen destination for those abroad. The business/leisure mix alone makes sense for EI to do this. I hope RDU is next. And I just hope RDU can sustain the business for foreign carriers. Apple looks to be pulling out and the commercial/housing market could cool to lukewarm at any moment.

If memory serves me right,AA used to fly to BNA,JFK & RDW from Stansted(EGSS)using B757's & B767's.That must have been at least 12-15 years ago. Great economy loads,but barely any premium ,so the routes,died!