INDIANAPOLIS — Non-stop, direct flights to Nashville—the country music capital of the world—will begin taking off from the Indianapolis International Airport in just seven months, airport leaders announced Thursday.
Southwest Airlines will offer the flights starting March 6
“We’ve been pursuing this nonstop flight with Southwest for over 7 years,” said Mario Rodriguez, executive director of the Indianapolis Airport Authority. “And it will launch just in time for the Spring Break travel season — and operate year-round.”
Maggie Cunningham, director of air service development for the Indianapolis Airport Authority, said many Hoosiers currently resort to driving from Indianapolis to Nashville—a roughly four and a half hour trip—because it is faster than flying through connecting flights.
A direct flight, based on average commercial airline speeds would be roughly an hour, or the same amount of a time for a direct flight from Indy to Chicago.
Currently Southwest flies nonstop out of Indy to Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore, Cancun, Dallas-Love, Denver, Panama City, Ft. Lauderdale, Houston-Hobby, Las Vegas, Kansas City, Orlando, Miami, Phoenix, Ft. Myers, San Diego, Sarasota/Bradenton and Tampa.
