Dolly Parton Airport Push Tops 100,000 New Signatures as Nashville Rename Faces 2028 Earliest
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Updated · WPLN · Aug 28
Dolly Parton Airport Push Tops 100,000 New Signatures as Nashville Rename Faces 2028 Earliest
3 articles · Updated · WPLN · Aug 28
Summary
More than 100,000 signatures were added in under 48 hours after Dolly Parton’s death to a petition to rename Nashville’s BNA as Dolly Parton International.
2028 is the earliest any official renaming could happen because Metro Nashville Airport Authority policy bars naming property for someone until two years after death.
Todd Warner, the Tennessee lawmaker whose Trump airport renaming proposal failed, said he would introduce legislation for Parton, while a Metro council member plans a city resolution backing the idea.
Roughly $10 million was the estimated cost when lawmakers last examined a BNA renaming, a hurdle for an airport already spending heavily to expand runway capacity for international service.
Airport policy still requires honorees to have made a substantial contribution to the authority or Middle Tennessee aviation, leaving unclear whether Parton would qualify without an exception.