“With only 20 gates at Love, the ability for Southwest to expand its routes is not enormous.” “I would be surprised if the number of San Antonio-Love Field flights is diminished,” said Richard Butler, a Trinity University economics professor who studies the airline industry. Hawkins said the size of Southwest's aircraft fleet will remain the same next year, but seating capacities will rise as Southwest phases in more new Boeing 737-800 aircraft into its fleet, seating 175 passengers, replacing smaller 737s seating 143 people. In the March-April 2014 period, any changes in routes, frequencies and fares may appear in the fall 2014 schedules. When will San Antonio know something? Southwest publishes its schedules and fares six months in advance. We are not going to postulate, but San Antonio will continue to be important to us in the post-Wright Amendment world.” “We've made no determination yet on the effect of the Wright Amendment. “We're committed to San Antonio, which we have served since day one,” Hawkins said. Source: San Antonio Airport System See More Collapse Besides Dallas' Love Field, which has 82 weekly flights from San Antonio, Southwest and AirTran flies direct to the following cities/airports, with numbers of weekly departures: 18, including flights on its subsidiary, AirTran Airways. 1 San Antonio airline with 39 percent of the departure market share as of Oct.
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