It is official: 2023 was the busiest yr ever recorded on the San Antonio Worldwide Airport (SAT).
10,676,570 passengers flew by way of SAT in 2023, which is 313,530 extra passengers (about three p.c extra) than the earlier file set in 2019. Practically 13 p.c extra passengers flew by way of SAT in 2023 than in 2022, a press launch mentioned.
2023 was really an enormous yr for SAT. Traveler data have been damaged each month from Might to December, and passenger numbers reached greater than 900,000 in December for the primary time ever. July was the primary month during which SAT flew greater than one million passengers, and broke one other file for the busiest day ever recorded with over 41,000 passengers flying by way of the airport on July 31.
SAT’s super progress has allowed for the addition of a number of new flight choices in 2024, together with nonstop worldwide flights to Mexico, and its first nonstop flight to Europe. Even with the rise in site visitors, SAT remains to be sustaining its standing as one of many least disturbing airports within the U.S.
San Antonio Airport System (SAAS) Director of Airports Jesus Saenz known as the 2023 passenger file a “historic milestone” for the airport.
“We all know how a lot arduous work went into all of it – with new routes introduced domestically and internationally,” Saenz mentioned in a launch. “2023 is now the yr to beat. We’re preparing for our first-ever nonstop flights to Europe beginning in Might on Condor Airways – and we’re planning a lot extra in 2024.”
New nonstop flights to Frankfurt, Germany, will start Might 17, and nonstop flights to Torreón, Mexico, will start June 1.
Stateside, SAT will even start every day nonstop flight providers to Newark, New Jersey on April 5 through Spirit Airways, and American Airways will provide every day nonstop flights to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, beginning June 5. Southwest Airways will present nonstop flights to Burbank, California, starting June 4.
