A flap over Southwest Airline's terminal space could crash its plans for San Antonio expansion.
Terminal A is the past San Antonio International Airport is trying to live down. Built on the cheap, it opened in 1984. Today, when God looks down on it, He would mistake it for a steam-rolled snake if He weren’t omnipotent. It’s an airport terminal in miniature. Its concourse at its widest is 75 feet, guaranteeing passenger gridlock if a couple of planes disembark at the same time, and its restrooms are dinky. Its HVAC and electrical systems are old and prone to breaking down.
Here’s what you could see at a reimagined San Antonio International Airport The city’s $2.5 billion airport expansion plan is a rejection of that “smallest big city” mindset. It envisions a future in which San Antonio’s population continues growing, more of its people have money for air travel, local companies hungry for expansion are buying more business-class tickets and the city is connected by nonstop air service to destinations in Europe and across the Americas.
‘You’re not big enough’: San Antonio may struggle to land more trans-Atlantic flights The catch: Southwest is also the undisputed powerhouse of the San Antonio airport, serving nearly 40% of the facility’s passengers. I obtained an Aug. 12 letter from Denise McElroy, Southwest’s senior manager of airport affairs, to Saenz in which she alluded to the airline’s market strength.
Renderings show San Antonio airport’s new terminal to open in 2028 The airline isn’t contemplating pulling out of the city, Watterson said, adding: “We’re not being petulant — we’re being pragmatic about the infrastructure that we’ll need.” But a prolonged fight over space at the airport could result in Southwest shelving its San Antonio expansion plans. The city is playing hardball with Southwest and vice versa.
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