Frontier starts nonstop service to/from San Antonio
Frontier Airlines launched its nonstop Memphis-San Antonio service Monday morning.
The first flight was scheduled for a 9:57 a.m. takeoff from Memphis International Airport.
The carrier will fly nonstop between the cities on Mondays and Fridays using a 150-seat Airbus 319 jet airliner. It wasn’t clear how many passengers boarded the inaugural flights.
“We had a pretty good crowd each way, not sure of the final numbers though,” Memphis International spokesman Glen Thomas wrote in an email.
An earlier airport study showed 40 passengers a day, each way, traveled between Memphis and San Antonio using connecting flights.
“San Antonio is one of our top unserved destinations and connecting our two great cities represents another ‘win’ for MEM and its passengers,” airport board head Pace Cooper said in a statement.
MEM is the unique code name assigned the Memphis airport by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
Denver-based Frontier opened service to Memphis in 2014 with a Denver route.
The discount airline now flies five nonstop Memphis routes to Denver, Las Vegas, Orlando, Philadelphia and San Antonio.
Frontier ranks as the No. 5 passenger carrier at Memphis International with 17,876 passengers loading and debarking in April.
Overall, the airport handled 358,659 passengers on 79 routes in April, and was led by Delta Air Line’s 91,292 passengers.