I fly into SAT occasionally in GA aircraft. No physical barriers to taxiing into the wrong part of the ramp (or onto the active runway when not cleared to do so, for that matter). I'm sure that if you deviated significantly from your taxi instructions without a good reason, they would send an Airport Police unit out to meet you, but that would take time...srothstein wrote: ↑Thu Sep 24, 2020 6:47 pmThey would not taxi in. As pointed out, it is not as easy as it seems. But flying into a building or another airplane is still easy and doesn't give security time to react.LDP wrote: ↑Wed Sep 23, 2020 11:43 am Unless there are stupid 07 and 06 signs posted, the terminal is not off limits to law-abiding citizen. Of course once you are past the TSA check point, you will be defenseless.
And even if there are 06 and 07 signs posted, they are illegal and hence not regulatory and many still go in armed anyway.
The whole gun free zone past TSA check points is a security theater anyway. If someone wanted to kill a bunch of passengers on an airline, they could just fly a C210 into SAT, have it packed with a ton of C4 and simply taxi it under and airliner and push the button. Why terrorists don't do that is beyond me. There is pretty much no control over airplanes if they wanted to collide on the tarmac.
But let's disarm the lawful citizen to make the sheeple feel better in their fluffy hollow heads.
At SAT the terminals and GA facilities are adjacent to each other (unlike other airports like College Station, where GA and airline terminals are on opposite sides of the field).