San Antonio Airport International Travel up 33 Percent
Posted by Randy Watson on Tuesday, February 7th, 2012 at 8:38pm.
San Antonio Airport International Passenger Numbers Soar
The San Antonio International Airport;s (SAT) International boarding passenger count had a major increase in 2011, reaching 182,031, or a 33.1 percent increase over 2010.
Domestic passengers continued to rise in 2011, totaling 7,898,793, up 1.2 percent over the previous calendar year. Total enplaned and deplaned passengers reached 8,171,824 in 2011, a 1.7 percent increase over 2010.
The large international passenger increase was primarily due to added seats in the market.
Source: San Antonio Airport System
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Jorge,
Thank you for your comments!
Randy
Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 11:40pm.
Most of those International Flights are to/from Mexico. At the end of last year, SAT added another airline InterJet with frequent non-stops direct to/from Mexico City. As cross-country ground travel within Mexico continues to be not-so-safe, wealthy Mexicans are choosing air travel.
Posted on Wednesday, February 8th, 2012 at 10:10am.