{"id":844483,"date":"2026-09-11T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844483\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T20:04:09","slug":"dolly-parton-is-getting-her-own-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/844483\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Is Getting Her Own Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nashville International Airport is being renamed in honor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/story\/dolly-parton-dies-at-80\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">late<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/artists\/5219-dolly-parton\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolly Parton<\/a>, the city\u2019s News Channel 5 <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/nashville-international-airport-to-change-its-name-to-dolly-parton-international-airport\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/nashville-international-airport-to-change-its-name-to-dolly-parton-international-airport&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newschannel5.com\/news\/nashville-international-airport-to-change-its-name-to-dolly-parton-international-airport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>. Tennessee Governor Bill Lee made the <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/governor\/news\/2026\/8\/28\/gov--lee-announces-partnership-to-name-nashville-international-airport-in-honor-of-dolly-parton.html\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/governor\/news\/2026\/8\/28\/gov--lee-announces-partnership-to-name-nashville-international-airport-in-honor-of-dolly-parton.html&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tn.gov\/governor\/news\/2026\/8\/28\/gov--lee-announces-partnership-to-name-nashville-international-airport-in-honor-of-dolly-parton.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official announcement<\/a> late last month, and now the city\u2019s Airport Authority board has voted unanimously in favor of the name change. It\u2019s the culmination of a campaign that was already underway prior to Parton\u2019s recent passing at the age of 80. The new airport name hasn\u2019t been announced yet.<\/p>\n<p>To push through the change, the Nashville Airport Authority apparently had to update an actual policy that said someone must be dead for two years before having an airport named after them. (Who knew!) Nashville International will retain its three-letter code, BNA, which comes from one of the airport\u2019s original builders, Col. Harry S. Berry. Next week, Parton will also receive a <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/dolly-parton-nashville-chamber-icon-award-2026-1236337335\/\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/dolly-parton-nashville-chamber-icon-award-2026-1236337335\/&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/dolly-parton-nashville-chamber-icon-award-2026-1236337335\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">posthumous honor<\/a> from the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Read Lily Goldberg\u2019s Saturday Track review of Dolly Parton\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/reviews\/tracks\/dolly-parton-i-will-always-love-you\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">I Will Always Love You<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nashville International Airport is being renamed in honor of the late Dolly Parton, the city\u2019s News Channel 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":844484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,7399,88,3,14065,777],"class_list":["post-844483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-textaboveleftsmall","tag-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/844484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}