It is official: 2023 was the busiest 12 months ever recorded on the San Antonio Worldwide Airport (SAT).
10,676,570 passengers flew via SAT in 2023, which is 313,530 extra passengers (about three p.c extra) than the earlier report set in 2019. Almost 13 p.c extra passengers flew via SAT in 2023 than in 2022, a press launch stated.
2023 was really an enormous 12 months for SAT. Traveler information had been damaged each month from Could 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 report for the busiest day ever recorded with over 41,000 passengers flying via 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 visitors, SAT continues to be sustaining its standing as one of many least aggravating airports within the U.S.
San Antonio Airport System (SAAS) Director of Airports Jesus Saenz known as the 2023 passenger report a “historic milestone” for the airport.
“We all know how a lot laborious work went into all of it – with new routes introduced domestically and internationally,” Saenz stated in a launch. “2023 is now the 12 months to beat. We’re preparing for our first-ever nonstop flights to Europe beginning in Could on Condor Airways – and we’re planning a lot extra in 2024.”
New nonstop flights to Frankfurt, Germany, will start Could 17, and nonstop flights to Torreón, Mexico, will start June 1.
Stateside, SAT will even start every day nonstop flight companies to Newark, New Jersey on April 5 through Spirit Airways, and American Airways will supply every day nonstop flights to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, beginning June 5. Southwest Airways will present nonstop flights to Burbank, California, starting June 4.
