“Navy Metropolis USA, on the deserves, deserves direct flights to and from [Washington],” Cruz mentioned on the presser held at San Antonio Worldwide Airport.
Native officers have referred to as for nonstop service to Washington for years, and Cruz argued that altering the federal rule limiting Reagan’s direct flights can be a primary step to creating that occur.
Cruz, who’s working for reelection, is a rating member on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. The committee is working by way of an FAA reauthorization invoice which may embrace the rule change permitting direct flights from San Antonio Worldwide to Reagan.
However consultants warn that even when the rule adjustments, the Alamo Metropolis could have a tough time convincing an airline to offer it direct flights to D.C. primarily based on its passenger numbers. In the course of the FAA’s 2022 fiscal yr, San Antonio Worldwide ranked forty fifth within the nation when it got here to air-passengers volumes.
“I’d hope the airport and metropolis are usually not being misled by jive consultants into considering it is a jump-ball marketplace for a number of airways,” mentioned Denver-based Aviation guide Michael Boyd of Boyd Group Worldwide.
“So, that is the underside line of the entire thing — whether or not or not it will get all the way down to this — [is whether] American Airways desires to do it,” mentioned Boyd to the Present. “Not Delta, JetBlue, Spirit.
