More direct flights to San Antonio, please

I don’t often find myself in agreement with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), but he’s got one thing right: getting a direct flight from the San Antonio Airport (SAT) to Reagan National in Washington, D.C. is a “massive priority.”

Cruz is the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and has some leverage in the matter. Earlier this month, he told a San Antonio business gathering that it’s “idiotic” that SAT doesn’t have such a flight. (Austin, however, does.)

In an editorial earlier this month, the San Antonio Express News stated, “The lack of nonstop flights to Washington, D.C. is a small-town problem... This lack of an exemption only hurts San Antonio economic competitiveness.”