Originally Posted by
formeraa
I think SAT-DCA will do fine. I suspect the demand will be there with all the military-related travel. Carefully chosen new routes out of SAT have been quite successful over time. Take SAT-SEA for example. I thought it wouldn't work, but AS now has two daily during peak times.
I will take the other side of that trade. I predict a bloodbath on AA's SAT-DCA route. Horrible yields in the local market based on the GSA contract fares posted upthread. And you will likely get a bunch of mediocre yielding flow too since SAT's pricing structure is pretty trashed by LCC competition.