You Can Get There From Here

No matter where "there" is, you can get there from here. One of the great things about Memphis is that its easy to get just about anywhere from Memphis. Northwest Airline anchors Memphis International Airport with its passenger hub. Between Northwest and the other airlines that service Memphis, there are non-stop flights from Memphis to more than 90 cities. (Source: www.memphisdelivers.com). The bulk of those non-stops are Northwest flights but Frontier just entered the Memphis market with non-stops to Orlando, Las Vegas and Denver. American has direct service to Dallas. United has direct service to Chicago. U.S. Air has direct service to Charlotte, Newark and Phoenix. Delta has direct service to Atlanta and Cincinnati. Memphis even has direct international flights to Toronto, Amsterdam, Cancun and Kingston, Jamaica. If you are flying for fun or for business, Memphis has tremendous options for you -- more so that many of our peer cities.

If you are driving, it's easy to get there from here too. The Tunica casinos are just thirty minutes away. Nashville is just three hours up I-40. Birmingham is three to four hours down U.S. 78 (which will be the future I-22). Jackson, Mississippi is three hours down I-55. Little Rock is two hours west on I-40. St. Louis is five hours north on I-55. The new transnational NAFTA highway (I-69) is under construction around Memphis and will run from the Mexican border to Canada. Atlanta, New Orleans, Dallas, the Smokey Mountains and the Gulf Coast Beaches are all within an easy day's drive.

If you are doing business and need to ship goods, Memphis is home to five class one railroads (BNSF, CN, CSX, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific -- Source: www.memphisdelivers.com). Of course, we also have the Fed Ex superhub from which you can ship letters or packages overnight to virtually anywhere in the world.

R.E.M. once sang that "You can't get there from here" and for many places, that may be true or, at least, it may seem like that is the case. That's not true for Memphis. In Memphis, you can get "there" from here.