The city is lining up a host of new short-range international flights at the same time it's building a new ground boarding facility to accommodate them.
A rendering shows the future ground load facility at the San Antonio International Airport. The project broke ground this week and is expected to be completed in 2025.The addition will use pre-engineered metal to construct a 37,000-square-foot passenger facility south of Terminal A. It’s expected to be completed in May 2025, much sooner than the rest of the airport improvements.
SAT will add direct flights to Torreón, Mexico, starting June 1, 2024, Director of Airports Jesus Saenz told City Council members.like the ones San Antonio is building are more commonly used in smaller airports, but growing in popularity at larger airports that want to attract low-cost carriers, which like them for their boarding and unloading speed.
While the new $62 million ground boarding facility creates space for smaller planes like the A320, Saenz said larger planes, like ones that will provide“The new ground load facility is going to be the bridge that’s going to take us to the new terminal complex,” Saenz said in an interview. “As we put in those gates, it’s going to provide additional capacity for some of these carriers that like to utilize ground load facility operations.
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