Whether the wedding is in downtown Nashville or at a venue out in Williamson County, we arrange flights for the couple, their families and their guests, and for the honeymoon or anniversary trip afterward.
Getting guests to the venue
Franklin and Brentwood have no airport of their own, so guests heading to a Williamson County venue fly into Nashville International Airport (BNA) or John C. Tune Airport and drive from there. For a venue east or southeast of the city, Smyrna Airport or Lebanon Municipal Airport may be closer. If you send us the venue’s address, we can get you to the airport nearest to it.
Spring and early summer are popular for weddings, and they are also thunderstorm season in Middle Tennessee. For guests who must be there, arriving the day before is the safer plan.
Flying the wedding party together
Putting the wedding party and close family on one aircraft means everyone arrives on the same day, with their clothes and gifts on board. Tell us about garment bags and anything fragile when you give us the headcount.
FAR Part 135 is the set of FAA rules for on-demand, for-hire charter. Once the group runs past nineteen passengers, the trip calls for an airliner-size aircraft and no longer falls under FAR Part 135. Those flights operate under FAR Part 121 or a foreign equivalent, which generally carries stricter crew and operating requirements than both Part 91 and Part 135.
Honeymoons and anniversaries
For an anniversary weekend, the Gulf Coast around Destin is a short flight from Nashville. For a honeymoon abroad, landing permits are generally applied for after the trip has been booked and paid, and sometimes the timeline is dictated by the local airport authorities. If you want to land straight back in Nashville, the flight clears customs at Nashville International, the only airport in the Nashville area with customs.
If you would like champagne, a cake or a favorite meal on board, see our in-flight catering page.
Vetting Behind Every Trip
Every operator, aircraft, and crew goes through our internal due diligence before we present any options. Our internal standards meet or exceed what the FAA requires:
- FAR Part 135 charter operators for traditional private aircraft, or FAR Part 121 for airliner-size and group trips (or the foreign equivalent on international legs)
- Operator subscription to Wyvern and ARGUS reviewed where the operator participates.
- Pilot experience and operator incident history reviewed before we recommend an aircraft.
- Fewer than 60 brokers worldwide hold Premium Wyvern Broker Member status, and Air Charter Advisors is one of them.
Nashville-Specific Patterns We Plan Around
Nashville International is the only airport in the Nashville area with customs, so a flight arriving from abroad lands there first. Tower hours shape the rest of the choice. Nashville International is staffed around the clock, John C. Tune from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., and Smyrna until 10 p.m. on weekdays and 7 p.m. on weekends, so a late departure from either of those two takes a little more planning. Franklin and Brentwood have no airport of their own, and clients there usually fly from Nashville International or John C. Tune. Ramp space at Nashville International gets tight on big event weekends, such as Titans home games, and in spring a line of thunderstorms can hold departures until it passes.
Contact
For a quote on a Nashville charter, send the trip through our contact page or call an advisor at 1-888-987-5387. Our safety page sets out how we review operators and crews, and the aircraft gallery covers every category we arrange. We are also a member of the National Business Aviation Association.