George Bush Intercontinental Airport
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George Bush Intercontinental Airport Template:Airport codes is twenty miles north of downtown Houston, Texas, USA. 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. The airport is Texas' second largest air facility, after the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. It is the ninth busiest in the United States for total passengers, and fourteenth busiest worldwide.
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History
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. The airport was renamed George Bush Intercontinental Airport/Houston in 1997. 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.
Terminals
Bush Intercontinental Airport has five terminals and encompasses 10,000 acres (40 sq. km). 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.
Terminal A
- Air Canada (Calgary)
- Air Canada Jazz (Toronto Pearson)
- American Airlines (Chicago O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami)
- American Eagle (Dallas/Fort Worth)
- America West Airlines (Phoenix, Las Vegas)
- Atlantic Southeast Airlines dba Delta Connection (Atlanta, Cincinnati)
- Chautauqua Airlines dba United Express (Washington Dulles)
- Colgan Air dba Continental Connection (Abilene TX, Beaumont, College Station, Del Rio, Killeen, Monroe LA, San Angelo, Texarkana, Tyler TX, Victoria TX, Waco)
- Comair dba Delta Connection (Cincinnati)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, Cincinnati, Salt Lake City)
- Frontier Airlines (Denver)
- SkyWest dba Continental Connection (College Station, Killeen, San Angelo, Victoria TX, Waco)
- Sun Country Airlines (Minneapolis/Saint Paul)
- United Airlines (Denver, Chicago O'Hare, San Francisco)
- US Airways (Charlotte, Pittsburgh; Washington National starting February 6, 2005)
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)
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
- Aeroméxico (Mexico City)
- Air France (Paris)
- Aviacsa (Monterrey, Mexico City)
- British Airways (London Gatwick, London Heathrow via Chicago O'Hare)
- Cayman Airways (Grand Cayman)
- China Airlines (Taipei via Seattle)
- Grupo TACA (Belize City)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Pakistan International Airlines (Karachi via Manchester UK and via Manchester UK and Lahore)
Charter Airlines
- Russia Jet Direct (Sakhalin, Russia via Seattle and Anchorage, service was scheduled to begin October 5, 2004 but has been delayed)
- World Airways dba Sonair (Luanda, Angola and Malabo, Equatorial Guinea)
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)
Security at Terminal E does not have a "Elite Access" line for frequent fliers to use.
Cargo airlines
- Aeropak
- Aeroterm
- Airborne Express
- Air France Cargo
- Air General
- Air Jamaica Cargo
- American International Airways
- Antonov Cargo
- Alitalia Cargo
- Arrow Air
- BAX Global
- British Airways Cargo
- Burlington Air Express
- Cargolux
- Continental Cargo
- DHL/Airborne Express
- Emery Worldwide
- Eva Cargo
- FedEx
- Frontier Cargo
- Genesis Aircraft Support
- Integrated Airline Services
- JAL Cargo
- Kitty Hawk
- KLM Cargo
- Korean Air Cargo
- LanChile Cargo
- Lufthansa Cargo
- Lynxs Group
- Martinair Cargo
- Menlo Worldwide
- Northwest Cargo
- Polar Air Cargo
- Polet Air Company
- Saudi Arabian Airlines
- Servisair Cargo
- Singapore Airlines Cargo
- Southwest Airlines Cargo
- TACA Cargo
- Trajen
- US Airways Cargo
- US Postal Service
- UPS
- United Cargo
- Varig Log
- Volga Dnepr
- World Airways Cargo
- Worldwide Flight Services
In the past, this airport was also served by Royal Jordanian, South African Airways, and Southwest Airlines.
External links
- Houston Airport System - Bush Intercontinental Airport (http://www.houstonairportsystem.org/iah_default.htm)
- Houston Airport Hotels (http://www.houston-iah.com/)
- Google Maps satellite image (http://maps.google.com/maps?q=IAH&ll=29.976196,-95.335150&spn=0.040770,0.063343&t=k&hl=en)
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