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Records in Ken Paxton divorce case are unsealed · Austin Signal

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Records in the divorce case for
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton
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have been unsealed after a
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judge's order.
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We're talking with the Texas
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newsroom's Lauren McGahee to find
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out what that means for the case.
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And travelers at the Austin airport
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will soon have more options.
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KUT's transportation reporter Nathan
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Bernier talks us through the
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newest flights coming to Austin
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Bergstrom International Airport.
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The Austin Signal is a production
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of KUT News, hosted by
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Saida Carrillo.
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Plus a look inside the press room
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at Hyde Park, which is home to
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a vintage letterpress and a vast
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collection of original
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cinema advertising prints.
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That and more coming up on Austin
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Signal.
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This is Austin Signal on KUT
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News. I'm Saida Carrillo filling
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in for Jerry Quijano.
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The cloudy skies are starting to
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clear up on this Monday, December
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22nd.
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Thanks for being here with us.
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Previously sealed records in the
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divorce case of Texas Attorney
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General Ken Paxton are now public.
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A judge issued an order to unseal
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the records on Friday.
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Lauren McGaughy is an investigative
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reporter and editor for the Texas
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Newsroom.
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She joins me now to talk about the
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latest in this case.
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Lauren, thanks for being here.
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You're welcome.
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So, Lauren, for those who are not
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familiar, bring us up to speed.
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Why is this a significant
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development in the Paxton divorce
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case?
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Sure, well since the
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Attorney General's wife, State
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Senator Angela Paxson filed for
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divorce in the
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summer, we have seen
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an effort from both Paxons to
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make these records in the case
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private, as private as possible.
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And for several months, we haven't
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really been able to read anything
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that they've been filing in the
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case. And this is as the
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Attorney general is running for U.S.
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Senate, and he's a public figure and
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seeking higher office.
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And we just haven't had any insight
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into these records
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until Friday when this
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order came down and we were able to
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see them for the first time.
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Right, you've been reporting
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extensively on the back and forth
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about making this information
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public.
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Why have Attorney General Paxton
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and his wife, State Senator Angela
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Paxton, fought to keep
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these records pri-
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Well, for several months, they
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were arguing that there was really
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no need for the records to be
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public.
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They were saying, look, we are
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public officials, they're both
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elected officials, but nothing
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in this case will be of interest to
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the public and it won't harm anyone
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if these records are private.
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That's what they were saying.
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And then the attorney general also
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filed his own filing that said that
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accusing the press of kind of trying
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to infiltrate his
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private life and just doing it for
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gossip purposes.
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But in response to that, a group of
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media organizations filed a request
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with the court to unseal the
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records. And the argument that they
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made was that both
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of these people are elected
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officials and that the case is going
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to involve their personal assets.
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And over the years, Attorney General
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Ken Paxson has been accused of
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corruption multiple times.
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And often they involve his own
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personal assets, the homes that he
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owns, renovations on
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his homes. And so those
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assets are pertinent to those
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allegations.
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And what new information,
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if any, have you and other reporters
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been able to take away from these
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now unsealed?
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Some of the records that were
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unsealed Friday for other media
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organizations, we saw the
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Texas Newsroom was able to see a few
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months ago because we were able to
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get some of the records right before
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the seal happened.
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So some of this we had already
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reported a few months ago.
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On Friday, we got a handful of
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additional records that showed that
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the couple has entered mediation.
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So they are trying to work this out
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without having to really get
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the courts further involved.
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And that they have used money from
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their blind trust, which has also
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been the subject of scrutiny
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regarding these corruption
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allegations, to pay for
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lawyers to do this mediation.
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So only a few additional filings in
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the case at this point were unsealed
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that we hadn't seen previously, but
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this does mean that anything
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additionally that's filed in
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the coming months into that court
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case will be available for public
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consumption.
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Okay, so a big shift from the way
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that things have been playing out so
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far.
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And you touched on this, Lauren, but
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why, if you could, if you could kind
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of sum it up, why does it matter to
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Texans that this information is
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accessible.
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You know, the argument that the
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media organizations made and the
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Texas Newsroom was one of them, so
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full disclosure there, was that
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any discussion of these assets
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that have been
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brought up in the course of
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conversations about public
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corruption allegations in
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the past should be public.
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There was also an argument made
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that, you know, most anyone who gets
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divorced in the state of Texas has
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the presumption that their case
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won't be automatically sealed and
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that the as public figures shouldn't
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be treated any differently.
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So what's next in this case?
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I know you'll be keeping an eye on
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all of the updates.
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You know, I think this development
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on Friday was a surprise.
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It wasn't the court coming
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in and say, forcing the Paxton's
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necessarily to do this.
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The Paxton just hours before
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said, we'll do this of our
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own volition.
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And I think that, you know, to me
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that might raise some questions as
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to whether they're going to try to
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handle this privately amongst
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themselves and really not try to let
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anything get into
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the public record that might be
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embarrassing. So We'll just have to
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see whether any additional
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insight into their assets,
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their asset sharing, will come
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up in those records.
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Lauren McGough, he is with the...
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Texas newsroom.
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Lauren, thank you so much for
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speaking with us.
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You're welcome.
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If you're flying out of Austin in
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2026, the list of
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places you'll be able to reach
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nonstop is changing.
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In many cases, the destinations are
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moving in a more vacation-friendly
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direction.
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New flights will make it easier to
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head straight to ski towns,
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beach cities, and some Midwestern
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hubs.
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But at the same time, a handful of
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familiar nonstop options will
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quietly fade away.
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So add it all up, and the number of
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seats for sale on flights out of
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Austin. Is set to rise nearly
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9% in the first three
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months of the new year compared to
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the same time last year.
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KUT's Jennifer Staton spoke with
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transportation reporter Nathan
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Bernier on what flying
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in 2026 is set to look
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like.
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All right, Nathan, so before we get
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down to the specific routes, what
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should travelers generally expect
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if they're flying out of Austin in
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the new year? Like, I always think
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about the airport expansion, what's
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going on with all of that.
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Yeah, well, I mean, that's
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a big one, because it's been
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underway for a few years now.
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And 2026, we're actually going
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to start seeing some of those
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projects come online.
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Of course, the big pieces of the
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expansion, like the new concourse
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with more than 20 gates and
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the big expansion of the
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Barbara Jordan terminal, they call
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it the arrivals and departures hall,
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those aren't till the early 2030s.
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But in early 2026 Checkpoint
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three, which has been under
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renovation for almost two years.
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That's at the West.
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End of the departures level
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that second level has been boarded
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up you may have noticed that is
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finally scheduled to reopen in
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early 2026 with more tsa screening
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lanes and and more airline ticket
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counters a little bit later an
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even bigger project in
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the spring of 2026 there's
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an eighty thousand square foot
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expansion at the west end of The
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barber jordan terminal that's on the
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secure site where the gates are
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that's scheduled to open in the
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Spring with three additional gates
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and a whole bunch of new amenities
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like new dining areas,
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a new mezzanine with a public
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outdoor balcony overlooking downtown
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Austin, a children's play area,
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there's even like a quiet room for
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meditation or just like you need a
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quiet space and a place where
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where pets can pee.
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So this is a big expansion and
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it's as I mentioned set to open in
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the spring and then once those two
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things are open then the airport's
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going to shut down the South
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Terminal. And that's where Allegiant
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and Frontier have been operating.
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And they're just gonna bulldoze that
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thing. I mean, you may recall the
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city tried to use eminent
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domain to evict the private
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company that was awarded the 30 year
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lease by the city council to run the
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South Terminal and that wound up a
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big legal mess and the city
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eventually paid 88 million dollars
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to get the South terminal back so
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they can knock it down.
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OK, so Nathan, remind us why
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the South Terminal is being knocked
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down. And of course, she mentioned
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the airlines that that operate there
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right now. Are they going to stay in
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Austin after that happens?
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Yeah, so the South Terminal is being
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torn down to make space for new
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taxiways that will allow planes to
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get around that new concourse that's
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opening in the early 2030s.
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And yes, both airlines are supposed
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to stay. Allegiant says they'll be
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moving into the Barbara Jordan
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Terminal in February.
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I have not heard back from
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Frontier yet, but airport staff
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say Frontier will be moving to the
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Barbara-Jordan Terminal as well.
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Now, something to keep in mind about
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this, these are ultra-low-cost
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airlines. People fly these airlines
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because they're so cheap.
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But, once they're in the
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Barbara Jordan terminal...
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They, Allegiant and Frontier, will
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have to pay much higher fees
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for all of the things that airports
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charge airlines, at least
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a part, if not all of that gets
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passed on to the customer.
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So that could affect ticket prices.
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But just speaking briefly about
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Frontier and Allegiant, both of
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those airlines are planning to
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reduce their schedules in early
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2026. So Frontier's going to go from
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flying from 11 cities to
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eight, and then Allegiant will go
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flying from seven cities to
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four. I don't know if that's related
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to their move to the Barbara Jordan
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terminal, but it does happen to
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coincide with that.
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Well, and Nathan, so we have your
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full list of new non-stops.
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You just mentioned some flights that
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are not gonna be happening, but
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we've got a list of non-stop, that's
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at KUT.org.
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But what can you tell us broadly
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about what we can expect in
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2026?
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Well, Southwest is on track to
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offer a record-breaking number
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of non-stop flights from Austin.
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So in January, Southwest will
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have up to 109
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daily departures.
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And then by June and August, that's
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going to rise to 132, which
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is higher than they've ever been in
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Austin.
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So just running down the list, a few
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examples.
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In March, Southwest, will start
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non-stops to Hayden
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slash Steamboat Springs, Colorado,
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Fort Myers, Florida.
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Palm Springs, California, and
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Pensacola, Florida.
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And then in June, Southwest will
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begin flying to Cincinnati every
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day. Of course, these are all
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non-stops I'm talking about.
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They'll bring back a non-stop to
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Seattle in June.
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And Southwest hasn't flown Austin to
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Seattle non-Stop since 2018, so
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it's been a while.
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Delta, second biggest carrier at
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ABIA after Southwest, they began
10:58
new non- stop service in November
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to Denver and Miami.
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Delta started flying to Cancun,
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Mexico on December 20th, so just
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earlier this month.
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But in terms of 2026, Delta is
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launching new nonstop service in
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June to Columbus, Ohio,
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Kansas City, Missouri, Bozeman,
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Montana, Destin,
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Fort Walton Beach Airport in
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Florida.
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And let me bring up American
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Airlines real fast.
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They're the third largest airline at
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ABIA in terms of seat capacity.
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They'll be flying nonstop to
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Augusta Regional Airport on April
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6th, 11th and 14th for the Masters
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Tournament.
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So this is like a special event
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service. A lot of airlines do for
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college football, you'll see some of
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those flights as well.
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So a lot of these little tweaks.
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One I did want to mention, which I
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just found interesting.
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I could not afford this myself, but
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Lufthansa flies non-stop
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from Austin to Frankfurt, Germany.
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One of the few non-stops to Europe
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from Austin.
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And so Austin is one of the few U.S.
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Cities where Luftheansa has launched
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its new Allegris service.
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It's very fancy.
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It's a premium offering on select
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flights, and it allows travelers
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to choose one of five high-end
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seat configurations.
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And so you have like a private
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little area, really comfortable
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seating.
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As far as I know, they only have the
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business class Allegris from
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Austin to Frankfurt.
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And that is, you're looking
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at over $10,000 for a
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one way.
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They may bring the first class
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Allegres here and that you can
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actually get a private suite
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where it is like with a bed
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and a 43 inch TV.
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Don't ask me how much that costs,
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cause I don't know.
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If you're taking a 9-hour flight to
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Frankfurt, it sounds lovely.
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You know, if you have the money for
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that kind of thing.
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All right, Nathan, so you've been
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letting us know about some
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interesting developments in flights
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out of Austin in 2026.
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You mentioned Southwest is adding a
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significant number.
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They're gonna have more flights than
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ever out of Boston, but that makes
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me think, what about the air traffic
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controller situation?
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Somebody's gotta manage and handle
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all of these flights.
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Where do things stand with air
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traffic controllers staffing in
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Austin?
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There's still an air traffic
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controller shortage in Austin.
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There are more trainees now,
13:04
but the staffing targets that are
13:06
set jointly by the FAA and the
13:08
Air Traffic Controllers Union call
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for 60 air traffic
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controllers. Not all at once, but
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just to have a pool of 60 air
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traffic controllers in there.
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At about half that still.
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And this was amazing
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to me. The busiest month ever
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in the history of Austin Berksham
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International Airport was October.
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That also happened to be
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during a government shutdown and
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there were only a handful of
13:30
what are called ground delays which
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are becoming more familiar to people
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now I think and that's when if
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you are in a flight bound for Austin
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and it has not departed yet you're
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still on the ground then you are
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held on the ground you are delayed
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on the round so that the controllers
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here can have more time to sort
13:46
through the planes in the sky and
13:47
they actually the FAA reduces the
13:48
number of planes that can land per
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hour in Austin.
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So we had I think three or
13:53
four during the government the
13:54
shutdown, but even after the
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shutdown ended.
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There have continued to be ground
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delays at Austin Berksham
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International Airport as a direct
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result of staffing shortages
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in the tower. So I think we'll
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likely see more of those because the
14:06
staffing shortages have not been
14:07
resolved. And I also think that
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government shutdown, those men and
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women working long hours,
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mandatory overtime six days a week
14:15
without pay definitely has
14:17
affected morale.
14:18
It's not exactly creating a
14:19
wonderful environment for
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recruiting.
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So don't expect ground delays
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to go away anytime soon.
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But the purpose of the ground delay
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is to make flying safer
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so that the controllers do
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not get overwhelmed when they're
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already overworked essentially so
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you just have to be as patient as
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you can and factor that in
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Looking to the skies in 2026,
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Nathan, thank you so much for your
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time. Thank you, Jen.
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You can read Nathan's more
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comprehensive list of changes to
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flights from Austin at KUT.org.
14:54
This is Austin Signal.
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We've got more coming up right after
14:57
this. Stay with us.
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Well, hi, you're listening to the
15:04
Austin Signal.
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I'm Jacquie Fuller, Assistant
15:06
Program Director at KUTX.
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One of my favorite songs out of
15:10
Austin this year is Magic of the
15:12
Sail by the band Teeth.
15:15
Now, only one of the members of
15:16
Teeth is from Austin, but the whole
15:18
band lives here now, so Austinites.
15:21
They all met at UNT and
15:23
were playing in different bands
15:24
around the Denton music scene and
15:26
then came together around 2020.
15:28
And this is their second album.
15:44
Teeth, like a lot of bands that
15:46
have been emerging as of late,
15:48
are inspired by the sound of 90s,
15:51
late 90s indie music,
15:53
but to me they move beyond just
15:55
emulating that sound and really nail
15:57
the emotional heart of it.
15:59
The first time I heard this song was
16:01
during their live performance at
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KUTX back in October.
16:04
I was running the board during that
16:05
session and I swear that just
16:07
listening to it I started to age in
16:09
reverse. It's true.
16:30
I am old enough to have been young
16:32
in the 90s, and this song just
16:33
transports me back to that time,
16:35
reminds me of listening to bands
16:36
like Lowe and Versus.
16:39
All I have to do is close my eyes
16:40
and I'm sending AOL instant messages
16:42
to a crush, and probably looking at
16:44
the Delia's catalog.
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If I had to boil it down to one
16:48
word, magic of the sale is
16:50
brooding.
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My name is Jacquie Fuller.
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I'm the Assistant Program Director
17:04
at KUTx and you can find all
17:06
of our favorite songs from 2025
17:07
at kutx.org.
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This is The Austin Signal.
17:27
This is Austin Signal, I'm Saida
17:29
Carrillo.
17:30
The Press Room in the Old Baker
17:32
School in Austin boasts a vintage
17:34
letterpress and a collection of
17:36
printing blocks for old movie ads.
17:38
Hundreds of Austinites got a look at
17:40
it and the renovated school during
17:42
last weekend's Hyde Park Holiday
17:44
Market.
17:45
Ella Kopeikin was one of them.
17:48
If you've ever taken a walk around
17:50
Hyde Park, you may have noticed the
17:52
old Baker School.
17:53
This is Travis Smith, interim
17:55
manager of the building.
17:56
People walk by all the time and
17:57
they'll say, what's in that
17:58
building? Like what is, I've always
17:59
wondered what that is.
18:00
Maybe you caught a glimpse while
18:01
driving down Guadalupe, or stopped
18:03
at Terrible Love, the coffee shop
18:05
operating out of the former school's
18:07
old boiler room.
18:09
Hundreds of Austinites got to take a
18:11
peek inside with the rollout of the
18:12
first ever Hyde Park Holiday
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Market.
18:15
I caught Jacqueline, an attendee,
18:17
as she was leaving a letterpress
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demonstration.
18:19
There's a lot of big markets and
18:21
I feel like this one feels
18:23
more eclectically
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awesome.
18:26
An array of local vendors, offering
18:28
everything from handmade ceramic
18:30
cactus lamps to perfectly worn
18:32
in vintage t-shirts to freshly
18:34
baked pop tarts, lined the
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courtyard and filled the 1940s
18:39
mint green time capsule cafeteria.
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Another market goer, Georgie,
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appreciated the level of
18:44
craftsmanship.
18:45
I feel like I'm getting something
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handmade. I like interacting with
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the people that made them.
18:49
I like getting to ask about the
18:50
product from the person.
18:52
The event was put on by one of the
18:53
building's tenants, the press room.
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These are the actual physical
18:57
printing blocks that were used to
19:00
print these advertisements in the
19:01
newspaper.
19:02
That's Smith again.
19:03
He also manages the press room.
19:05
He's showing me the shop's vintage
19:06
letterpress.
19:07
Any of the 60,000 blocks
19:09
in the collection can be inked and
19:11
pressed to make prints.
19:12
His favorite is for Blade Runner,
19:14
an image of a stoic Harrison Ford
19:16
holding a gun and surrounded by
19:18
beams of extraterrestrial light.
19:20
So yeah, we have this historic
19:22
collection and it covers about 50
19:23
years of cinema history,
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graphic design history, industrial
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history.
19:28
The press room was founded by one of
19:29
the owners of the former school, Tim
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League. When Austin Independent
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School District put the building up
19:35
for sale in 2017,
19:37
League and his wife, Carrie, placed
19:38
a bid with the hopes of making it
19:40
the headquarters for their cinema
19:41
chain, Alamo Drafthouse.
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Here's Carrie League.
19:45
So we won it even though
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our offer wasn't the highest.
19:49
After two years of renovation,
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the Leagues reopened the building
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and renamed it the Baker Center.
19:55
Two of the three floors of former
19:56
classrooms were dedicated to Alamo
19:58
offices, and the press room was
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based in the repurposed cafeteria
20:02
kitchen.
20:02
No square pieces, but we have plenty
20:04
of old printing equipment.
20:05
Smith had already built a career in
20:07
letterpress and printmaking.
20:09
He began cataloging and organizing
20:11
the printing blocks and showcasing
20:12
them to small groups and workshops.
20:14
We open up our space and do ticketed
20:16
workshops to get people in to see
20:18
this collection because it needs to
20:19
be seen and used, especially to keep
20:21
it working, keeping it healthy.
20:23
But while work in the press room
20:24
stayed steady, financial struggles
20:26
in the pandemic led to Sony's
20:28
acquisition of Alamo Drafthouse in
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2024.
20:31
The sale created another moment of
20:32
transition for the former school.
20:34
Alamo just like really shrank
20:36
down. And in the end, they only
20:38
occupied half of one floor.
20:40
So we just started advertising
20:42
and looking for tenants.
20:44
The building didn't sit empty for
20:45
long.
20:46
I think adaptive reuse
20:48
sort of is going to attract
20:50
people who believe and understand
20:52
the importance of historic
20:53
preservation and adapting
20:55
and reusing spaces.
20:56
By early this year, the Baker Center
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was transforming into a hub for
21:01
creativity and activism,
21:02
with tenants like the League of
21:04
Women Voters, the Travis Audubon
21:06
Society, Austin Classical
21:08
Guitar, Texas Archive of the
21:09
Moving Image, as well as a number of
21:12
artists and designers.
21:13
It's a really rich, kind of diverse
21:15
cross-section of culture,
21:17
art, and design and technology.
21:20
With a new community established,
21:22
the Leagues and Smiths started
21:23
talking about ways to give the
21:24
public greater access to the
21:26
building.
21:26
That's where the markets come in.
21:28
It's been a community hub since
21:30
the inception of the neighborhood.
21:32
And so this is sort
21:33
of that natural extension.
21:35
The Holiday Market was the third
21:36
hosted in the building this year,
21:38
and as far as vendors and attendees
21:40
go, the biggest one yet.
21:42
Events like these markets also offer
21:44
a special opportunity for the Press
21:46
Room to be open to more than just a
21:47
few people at a time.
21:49
I want more people to come hang out
21:50
with me. We'll have the printing
21:51
press activated running prints.
21:53
You'll get a good idea as to what
21:55
it's like.
21:55
Next on the agenda for the Baker
21:57
Center, giving people more
21:59
reasons to visit.
22:00
I think the building itself is
22:02
an experience.
22:03
I see us as sort of this catalyst
22:05
to kind of bring people together,
22:07
learn about each other, and sort of
22:09
build that creative community.
22:11
And making sure they keep coming
22:12
back.
22:13
Here's Kerry League again.
22:14
Building out the boiler room to put
22:16
a coffee shop in there and then
22:19
to start construction on a wine
22:21
bar right next door.
22:22
I'm trying to create a place that
22:24
people love.
22:25
What could be more in the holiday
22:27
spirit?
22:28
For KUT News, I'm Ella Kopekin
22:30
in Austin.
22:36
That's it for us today on Austin's
22:38
Signal.
22:39
Reina Sevilla is our technical
22:41
director.
22:41
Kristin Cabrera is our managing
22:43
producer.
22:44
You can find more on the show at
22:46
kut.org slash
22:48
signal.
22:49
I'm Saida Carrillo, thank you for
22:50
listening.