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Despite being just 66 miles from Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, San Antonio International Airport dominates its core catchment, achieving a 69% total market share. Unsurprisingly, of the passengers leaking from this area, Austin-Bergstrom captures 77%, followed by Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport capturing 17%.
Interestingly, on the three routes where San Antonio is leaking the most passengers to Austin (to Los Angeles International Airport, New York Newark Liberty International Airport and San Francisco International Airport), a significant number of passengers are located close to San Antonio.
Resident passengers using Austin to travel to LAX, EWR and SFO in 2023
In Jul-2025, San Antonio Airport received a USD13.3 million grant from the US FAA under the Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) programme to support key elements of the airport’s new terminal development as it enters its fourth phase of construction.
The airport broke ground on the new terminal in Dec-2024, with the project to include over 800,000sqft of terminal space, 35,700sqft of concessions space and up to 17 gates.
The terminal is scheduled for completion in 2028 and forms the cornerstone of the airport’s USD2.5 billion Elevate/SAT expansion and capital improvements programme.
Catchment Analyzer data is helping airports stay on top of the changing passenger behaviour trends of their catchment area, uncovering underlying patterns rather than relying on pure volume metrics.
Recent CAPA News highlights for San Antonio International Airport
San Antonio International Airport secures USD13.3m AIG grant for terminal development project
San Antonio International Airport received (07-Jul-2025) a USD13.3 million grant from the US FAA under the Airport Infrastructure Grants (AIG) programme. Funding will support key elements of the airport’s new terminal development as it enters its fourth phase of construction, such as mass excavation, drilled piers and design assist work for mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems as well as baggage handling systems. The terminal project is the cornerstone of Elevate/SAT, a USD2.5 billion expansion and capital improvements programme.
San Antonio International Airport confirms parking structure, Ground Transportation Centre project
San Antonio International Airport announced (14-May-2025) it is moving forward with the design and construction of a new parking structure and Ground Transportation Centre. The project aims to provide expanded public parking for up to 2000 vehicles, as well as a central location for shuttles, rideshares, taxis and future mobility services. The structure will also be designed to accommodate future development of an eVTOL operations area.
Spirit Airlines launches Atlanta-San Antonio service
Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, via its official Twitter account, announced (10-Apr-2025) Spirit Airlines launched San Antonio service. The service operates daily with A320 equipment. Delta Air Lines, Frontier Airlines and Southwest Airlines also operate the route, according to OAG.
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The growth in global demand for “green” office buildings has slowed after Donald Trump’s assault on environmental protection policies caused a slump in interest in the US, according to a survey of construction industry professionals.
Building occupiers and investors across North America and South America expressed significantly lower growth in demand for green commercial buildings, a shift that “seems to be in response to a change in US policy focus”, according to a survey of members of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics). Reported demand across the rest of the world also fell, albeit not as sharply.
Residential and commercial buildings together accounted for 34% of global carbon emissions in 2023, according to the UN Environment Programme. The majority of those emissions came from heating, cooling and powering buildings, although about a fifth came from construction.
The UN said there was a “critical need for accelerated action in the buildings sector to meet global climate goals”. However, the Rics survey suggested global construction industry professionals were experiencing slower growth in demand.
Green buildings can use a range of techniques to cut their environmental impact, ranging from using materials that reduce high-carbon concrete, to cutting water use, cutting heat lost through windows, and using renewable energy. Energy efficiency improvements in particular also help to cut operating costs.
Nicholas Maclean, Rics’s acting president, said: “It seems to me that what we’re seeing at the moment might be a blip.
“The people who are going to end up using these buildings want them to be sustainable. Everybody, frankly, knows this is the right thing to do.”
He added that green office buildings tend to have a “competitive advantage” in attracting higher rents, because of demand from large-scale corporate tenants, in particular.
There were still more US respondents to the survey who reported growth in interest in sustainable commercial buildings. However, the balance of building professionals across the continent reporting higher demand fell sharply, from 25% to 11%.
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Outside North and South America, the balance reporting growth in demand was 40%, still down from 48% in 2021, the first year of the survey, but far above the US.
Kisa Zehra, Rics’s sustainability analyst, said government policy and regulations have a “huge impact on the confidence of the market”. The Trump administration has made a concerted effort to dismantle a huge range of environmental protections put in place by Republican and Democratic predecessors, undermining confidence in green standards.
Rics also highlighted a decline in the number of construction industry professionals who measured their projects’ embodied carbon, such as that emitted in making materials such as steel, glass and concrete, or in the construction process itself. Forty-six percent of construction professionals reported not measuring embodied carbon, up from 34% the year before. Only 16% of respondents said carbon measurement meaningfully informed material choices in project design.
A wide-ranging review into paracetamol use by pregnant women has found no convincing link between the common painkiller and the chances of children being diagnosed with autism and ADHD.
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