William P. Hobby Airport

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William P. Hobby Airport (IATA: HOU, ICAO: KHOU) is named after former Texas governor William P. Hobby and is located 8 miles (13 km) southeast of Houston, in Harris County, Texas. Despite occasional claims of being the only U.S. commercial airport to be named after a woman, it was not named after Oveta Culp Hobby.

It was first called Houston Municipal Airport in 1937. It was named Howard R. Hughes Airport in 1938, but because the person was alive at the time, the airport's name changed back to Houston Municipal.

In 1950, Pan Am started a Houston-Mexico City flight, and in 1954, the name was changed to Houston International Airport. KLM started Amsterdam operations in 1957. KLM later moved to Houston Intercontinental Airport (now George Bush Intercontinental Airport), where it remains today.

Houston Intercontinental Airport was built in 1969 because of limitations on expansion to Hobby. All commercial aviation operations at Hobby were moved to Houston Intercontinental upon completion.

Hobby was reopened to commercial aviation in 1971.

Hobby has a lot of low-fare carrier operations, as opposed to Bush Airport's hub operation with Continental Airlines. Business travellers on shorter routes to Houston from within the United States tend to prefer Hobby over Bush Intercontinental.

1 Concourses
2 External links

Concourses

Hobby Airport has three Concourses: A, C, and the new Central concourse. All Concourses are open as of October 2005.

Concourse A

Southwest Airlines (Austin, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, San Antonio)

Central Concourse

Southwest Airlines (Albuquerque, Baltimore/Washington, Birmingham (AL), Chicago/Midway, Dallas/Love, El Paso, Fort Lauderdale, Jackson (MS), Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Midland/Odessa, Nashville,New Orleans,Oakland, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Diego, Tampa, Tulsa)