As of late October, JetBlue will no longer offer direct flights from San Antonio International Airport to Boston and New York. Credit: City of San Antonio

Say what you will about San Antonio’s airport. Sometimes being tiny has its advantages.

A new study by luggage-storage service Bounce ranked San Antonio International second in the U.S. for having a short security wait time. The average wait to dump one’s belongings into plastic tubs and be subjected to an x-ray in the Alamo City is just six minutes, six seconds, according to the company.

“San Antonio has moved from eighth to second since last year, seeing its average wait time shrink by around five minutes,” the report noted.

New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport had the nation’s longest wait time at 22 minutes, 48 seconds, while Baltimore/Washington Airport in Maryland had the shortest at four minutes even, Bounce’s analysis shows.

San Antonio airport honcho Jesus Saenz credited teamwork for getting passengers through the wait so quickly.

“We hear it all the time, that our airport is fast and easy to fly in and out of,” Saenz said in a statement. “So much of that is because of the collaboration we see from our security, police force and of course our canine teams too.”

That said, we’d wager the size of the airport also plays at least a small role in our bragging rights.

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This article appears in May 31 – Jun 13, 2023.

Sanford Nowlin is editor-in-chief of the San Antonio Current. He holds degrees from Trinity University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, and his work has been featured in Salon, Alternet, Creative...