San Antonio Worldwide Airport’s very first nonstop European flight launching in Might 2024

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SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Worldwide Airport will get its initially nonstop European flight up coming May.

The nonstop flight to Frankfurt, Germany, will launch on Could 17, 2024, with its preliminary period functioning by way of Sept. 6, 2024. The seasonal flight would function 3 moments a week on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

“Simply claimed, San Antonio Worldwide Airport has arrived on the planet stage,” Mayor Ron Nirenberg explained to the crowd at an announcement downtown Thursday afternoon.

Condor Airways, which costs alone as “Germany’s most well-liked leisure airline,” will operate the flights on its Airbus A330-900neo plane, which has 30 organization course seats, 64 premium financial system and 216 in economy.

Tickets are now for sale on Condor’s site. A spherical-journey from May possibly 17 to May 24 could expense as small as $980, in accordance to a research of the ticketing system.

The predicted flight instances are 10 hours and 15 minutes from San Antonio International Airport (SAT) to Frankfurt Worldwide Airport (FRA) and 11 several hours and 25 minutes from FRA to SAT.

Travelers heading to the chaotic German airport can make dozens of onward connections all through Europe, the Middle East, Africa and India.

Director of Airports Jesus Saenz Jr. claimed there have been extra than 300 Europe-bound travelers a day leaving San Antonio Intercontinental Airport in the summer season of 2022 and approximately the identical quantity arriving.

A “vast majority” of their passengers in 2022 and 2023 have been headed to Germany, he reported.

“So that’s one of the largest factors it was incredibly desirable to want to shift in that route,” he reported.

Saenz expects the flights will support deliver back again some of the travelers who may possibly have been driving up I-35 to Austin-Bergstrom International, which has nonstop flights to Frankfurt, London, and Amsterdam.

“This is just the beginning of so considerably extra to arrive at SAT,” Saenz said in a information launch. “We fully think San Antonio will utilize this support to Europe and acquire edge of Condor’s particularly aggressive airfares. After that takes place, we foresee Condor will expand their solutions even even further.”

In a media briefing in advance of Thursday’s formal announcement, however, metropolis officers bristled at thoughts as to why it experienced taken until finally now to secure a immediate flight to Europe.

City Manager Erik Walsh said the exact problem could be asked about why the metropolis hadn’t formerly expanded the airport, which now has a $2.5 billion system.

“Some of this things — the relationships and the institution of those people connections from a marketing standpoint with airlines outdoors this nation — we must have accomplished that a long time back,” Walsh reported. “And so we are remaining really diligent now. But no question there is a great deal of items we could have performed much better 20 several years in the past.”

Now that it has the flight, while, city officials are shouting the announcement from the rooftops.


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