Well, that was fast. On Wednesday — the same day the U.S. House approved an FAA reauthorization bill expanding the number of direct flights into the Washington, D.C., area — American Airlines said it plans to add one direct flight between San Antonio and the nation's capital.
San Antonio International Airport could land its first direct flight to Washington, D.C., by late summer or early fall, officials said.expanding the number of direct flights into the Washington, D.C., area — American Airlines said it plans to add one direct flight between San Antonio and the nation's capital.
“San Antonio is one of the fastest growing cities in the country and is the largest unserved market in Texas from ," Nate Gatten, an American's executive VP overseeing real estate and government affairs, said in the airport's statement. While the city's congressional delegation lobbied hard to include an expansion in the latest FAA reauthorization bill, they faced headwinds from D.C.-area politicos who argued more flights at Reagan National will posed safety risks and increase flight delays.that an expansion wouldn't necessarily mean an airline would want to extend a flight to the Alamo City, whose airport ranked 45th in the U.S. in passenger traffic in 2022.
“We have been working for more than a decade to give residents of America’s seventh-largest city the same access to our nation’s leaders as nearly every other major city in the country,” San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg said in the airport's statement.
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