Nashville International Airport Smashes Passenger Record With Nearly 18.3 Million Travelers in 2019

The numbers are in, and Nashville International Airport (BNA) again shattered its all-time passenger record. BNA announced a new calendar year total of nearly 18.3 million passengers served in 2019, the airport’s seventh consecutive calendar year of record-setting growth.

In 2019, 18,273,434 passengers traveled into and out of BNA, exceeding the 2018 calendar year total by more than 2.2 million passengers. The 2019 total represents a 14.2 percent increase over the previous year. 2019 was also the first year to add more than 2 million additional total passengers and the second calendar year to exceed 1 million passengers every month.

“The passenger growth at BNA has been astounding over the last several years,” said BNA President and CEO Doug Kreulen. “These numbers derive largely from the ongoing business activity, tourist travel and population boom in this region and help explain why the airport serves as an economic engine for Middle Tennessee. Above all, this continued growth underscores the need for the bigger, better airport currently under construction. We’re getting there.”