San Antonio International passengers fly high in Feb. 2018

​​​​SAN ANTONIO – A thriving local economy and a slate of new flights spurred double digit growth in passenger traffic to San Antonio International Airport (SAT) in February 2018, according to city aviation officials​.

More than 667,000 travelers passed through SAT last month, according to the airport’s monthly statistics report​. 

Traffic was up 10.5 percent from the roughly 604,000 passengers who embarked from or landed at the airport in February 2017.

Increased airline capacity and new routes—including a daily nonstop route to Philadelphia from American Airlines and several routes from Frontier Airlines—promoted a 10 percent spike in domestic traffic to the airport in February. 

Officials recorded 644,000 domestic travelers passing through the airport in February 2018, up from nearly 586,000 in February 2017.