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George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Quick Info
Type of Airport commercial
Run by City of Houston
Opened 1969
City Houston, Texas, United States
Coordinates 29°58′55″N 95°20′45″W / 29.98194°N 95.34583°W / 29.98194; -95.34583
IATA IAH ICAO KIAH
Runways
Direction Length Surface
Feet Meters
08L/26R 9,000 2,743 Paved
08R/26L 9,402 2,866 Paved
09/27 10,000 3,048 Paved
15L/33R 12,001 3,658 Paved
15R/33L 9,999 3,048 Paved
Statistics
1997
Number of Passengers 28,705,213
Number of Takeoffs/Landings 402,585
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport is twenty miles north of downtown Houston, Texas, USA.

The airport is Texas's second largest air facility, after the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.

It is located between Interstate 45 and Highway 59, inside the Houston city limits in the Aldine area, and is adjacent to Humble.

Bush Intercontinental has flights to other parts of the United States, as well as to Canada, Latin America, Europe, and Asia.

George Bush Intercontinental, named after George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States and father of the current President George W. Bush, is the hub of Continental Airlines, and, because of its closeness to their hub in Dallas, American Airlines also keeps a large presence there. A long list of Texas, domestic, and international cities are served non stop from this airport.

Houston Intercontinental Airport, as it was originally known, was opened in 1969. It had taken all passenger traffic from William P. Hobby Airport, known back then as Houston International Airport. Hobby Airport reopened under its current name several years later. The Mickey Leland International Airlines building was opened in May 1990, and the new terminal E was partially opened on June 3, 2003. The rest of terminal E opened on January 7, 2004. The new Federal Inspection Service (FIS) building was completed on January 25, 2005.

Houston Intercontinental Airport was renamed George Bush Intercontinental Airport/Houston in 1997 and retains its IATA Airport Code, IAH. Houston is seen by many as a nice hub due to location, especially for flights into Latin America. Many also feel that the airport is well organized.

The underground inter-terminal train links all of the five terminals of the airport together. Unfortunately, the passenger must go out of the sanitized zone to board the train. However, Terminals B and C have the Terminalink, a train in the sanitized zone. There are also walkways between C, D, and E.

METRO's METRORail is slated to come to George Bush Intercontinental from downtown.

Bush Intercontinental Airport has five terminals and encompasses 10,000 acres (40 km&sup2). It is the ninth busiest in the United States for total passengers, and fourteenth busiest worldwide.

George Bush Intercontinental Airport has five terminals.

Terminal A

Terminal B

  • Continental Express (Alexandra, Atlanta, Austin, Bakersfield, Baton Rouge, Beaumont, Birmingham, Boise, Brownsville, Charleston (SC), Charleston (WV), Charlotte, Chicago O'Hare, Cincinnati, Colorado Springs, Columbia (SC), Columbus, Corpus Christi, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Dallas Love Field, Dayton, Des Moines, El Paso, Fayeteville (AR), Ft. Walton Beach, Grand Rapids, Greensboro, Greenville, Gulfport, Harlingen, Huntsville, Indianapolis, Jackson, Jacksonville, Killeen, Kansas City, Knoxville, Lafayette, Lake Charles, Laredo, Lexington, Little Rock, Louisville, Lubbock, McAllen, Memphis, Midland, Milwaukee, Mobile, Nashville, Nassau, New Orleans, Norfolk, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Orlando, Palm Springs, Pensacola, Pittsburgh, Raleigh-Durham, Richmond, Salt Lake City, Sarasota/Bradenton, Savannah, Shreveport, St. Louis, Tallahassee, Toronto, Tucson, Tulsa, Washington Dulles, West Palm Beach, Wichita)
  • Northwest Airlines (Detroit, Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Memphis)
  • SkyWest dba Continental Connection (Abilene TX, Beaumont, College Station, Monroe LA, San Angelo, Texarkana, Tyler TX, Victoria TX, Waco)

Terminal C

(Lewis W. Cutter Terminal C)

  • Continental Airlines
    • Flights to the United States, Canada, and Puerto Rico (Albuquerque, Atlanta, Austin, Baltimore/Washington, Birmingham, Boston, Calgary, Chicago O'Hare, Cleveland, Columbus, Dallas-Ft. Worth, Denver, Detroit, Edmonton, El Paso, Ft. Lauderdale, Ft. Myers, Gulfport, Gunnison, Hartford, Hayden, Honolulu, Indianapolis, Kahului, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, McAllen, Miami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, Montrose/Telluride, New Orleans, New York La Guardia, Newark, Oakland, Oklahoma City, Omaha, Ontario, Orange County (Santa Ana), Orlando, Pensacola, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Raleigh-Durham, Reno, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose (CA), San Juan, Seattle, Tampa, Toronto, Tucson, Tulsa, Vail/Eagle, Vancouver, Washington Dulles, Washington Reagan, West Palm Beach)

==International Terminal D== (Mickey Leland International Airlines Building)

Commercial

Charter Airlines

International Terminal E

  • Continental Airlines - Mexico, Latin America, Europe, and Japan (Acapulco, Agana, Belize City, Bogota, Cancun, Caracas, Cozumel, Grand Cayman, Guadalajara, Guatemala City, Ixtapa, Liberia (CR), Lima, London Gatwick, Managua, Merida, Mexico City, Montego Bay, Monterrey, Panama City, Paris De Gaulle, Puerto Vallarta, Quito, Rio de Janeiro, Roatan, San Jose del Cabo, San Jose (CR), San Pedro Sula, San Salvador, Sao Paulo, Tegucigalpa, Tokyo Narita)
  • Continental Express - Mexico (Acapulco, Aguascalientes, Chihuahua, Ciudad Del Carmen, Durango, Guadalajara, Huatulco, Ixtapa, Leon/Guanajuato, Manzanillo, Mazatlan, Mexico City, Monclova, Monterrey, Morelia, Oaxaca, Puebla, Puerto Vallarta, Saltillo, San Jose del Cabo, San Luis Potosi, Tampico, Toluca, Torreon, Veracruz, Villahermosa)

Cargo airlines

The Past

In the past, this airport was also served by Royal Jordanian, South African Airways, and Southwest Airlines.

Major incidents

Trivia

This airport is named after George H. W. Bush, who is alive as of April 2005. Another Houston Airport, William P. Hobby Airport, when it was called Houston Municipal Airport, had its name briefly changed to Howard R. Hughes Airport in 1938, but because Mr Hughes was alive at the time, the airport's name was changed back to Houston Municipal. There appear to be no plans to change the name from George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

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