Cheap Flights San Antonio | Guide to Airline Tickets San Antonio Texas

Travelers looking for cheap flights to San Antonio, Texas are in for a pleasant surprise. Several discount airlines fly from San Antonio. The king of cheap airline tickets, Southwest Airlines, operates the most flights from the San Antonio International Airport (SAT) with over 30% of the commercial flights. They own the market and it has made this destination a very competitive market for flights within the US.

For airfare from Canada to San Antonio, Air Canada have code-sharing through their Star Alliance partners Continental and United. You can find good deals on airfare to SAT from Canada with travel search engines like Low Fares, Travelocity and Mobissimo.

For travelers from Mexico, the Mexican airline, AeroMexico fly to San Antonio.

The best days of the week to fly from San Antonio for cheap airline tickets are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. The airport is one of the top 20 airports in the US based on passenger volume and compared to many destinations in the US, this market has very good airfare pricing. This is largely due to the presence of Southwest Airlines. Southwest and their partner Air Tran are known for their discount airline tickets and the other major air carriers price their flights to compete.

To find the best price, you'll need to compare the prices on Southwest's website with the airfares you can find through an airfare search engine like Mobissimo or Travelociy. The search engines do not list Southwest's airfare, making it necessary to do a separate search on the Southwest site itself.

There are over 8 million passengers a year at the San Antonio International Airport. In addition to Southwest Airlines, it is an important airport for many of the major airlines. United refers to the airport as a focus city. This means it is not a hub airport but a smaller, yet important, destination for the airline.

• Aeromar
• Aeromexico
• Air Canada
  
• AirTran
• Alaska
• American
• American Eagle
• Continental
• Delta
• Frontier
• Mesaba
• Skywest
  
• Southwest
• United
• United Express
• US Airways

Although Southwest Airlines are the recognized leader in low fares around the country, consider Frontier Airlines. They too have very low fares to many destinations in the US, including San Antonio, including non stop flights from cities such as Denver, Colorado.

For example, Frontier Flight 0687 is a non stop between DEN and SAT. With the non stop flight, you're scheduled to arrive in 2 hours 5 minutes. Much better than the one or two stop connections with most of the other airlines.

The top three destinations to San Antonio, Texas are from Dallas/Fort Worth; Atlanta, Georgia and Houston, Texas.

AeroMexico use the airport for flights to Mexico City (MEX). AeroMexico is the only airline with non-stop flights from SAT to MEX.

Air Canada is the only airline in Canada with flights to this airport. Air Canada code-shares with Continental and United on this destination.  Canada's 2nd largest airline, WestJet do not fly to San Antonio, Texas and they do not have a code-sharing agreement with any airlines that do fly here.