

Bush, the 41st President of the United States. In April 1997, Houston City Council unanimously voted to rename the airport George Bush Intercontinental Airport/Houston, after George H. Instead of renaming the whole airport, the city named Mickey Leland International Arrivals Building, which would later become Mickey Leland Terminal D, after the congressman.

Congressman who died in an aviation accident in Ethiopia.

In the late 1980s, Houston City Council considered a plan to rename the airport after Mickey Leland-an African-American U.S. defended the municipality on appeal to the Texas Supreme Court. Ball Construction of San Antonio, sued the city of Houston for $11 million in damages, but assistant city attorney Joseph Guy Rollins Jr. Houston Intercontinental had been scheduled to open in 1967, but design changes regarding the terminals created cost overruns and construction delays. Hobby remained open as a general aviation airport and was once again used for scheduled passenger airline jet service two years later when Southwest Airlines initiated intrastate airline service nonstop between Hobby and Dallas Love Field in 1971. Hobby Airport moved to Intercontinental upon the airport's completion.
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The airport's IATA code of IAH derived from the stylization of the airport's name as " Intercontinental Airport of Houston." All scheduled passenger airline service formerly operated from William P. Houston Intercontinental Airport, which was the original name for the airport, opened in June 1969. This annexation, along with the 1965 annexations of the Bayport area, the Fondren Road area, and an area west of Sharpstown, resulted in a gain of 51,251 acres (20,741 ha) of land for the city limits. The City of Houston annexed the Intercontinental Airport area in 1965. Most of Jetero Boulevard was later renamed Will Clayton Parkway. Although the name Jetero was no longer used in official planning documents after 1961, the airport's eastern entrance was named Jetero Boulevard. The holding company for the land was named the Jet Era Ranch Corporation, but a typographical error transformed the words "Jet Era" into "Jetero" and the airport site subsequently became known as the Jetero airport site. Hobby Airport (at the time known as Houston International Airport).

George Bush Intercontinental Airport's air traffic control towerĪ group of Houston businessmen purchased the site for Bush Intercontinental Airport in 1957 to preserve it until the city of Houston could formulate a plan for a new airport as a replacement for William P. Houston Intercontinental is one of the largest passenger hubs for United Airlines. IAH covers 10,000 acres (40 square kilometres) of land and has five runways. Bush, the 41st president of the United States and resident of Houston, in 1997. The airport, originally named Houston Intercontinental Airport, was later renamed after George H. It is the busiest airport in Texas for international passenger traffic and number of international destinations, as well as being the second busiest airport in Texas overall, and the 12th busiest in the United States for total passenger traffic. Highway 59 with direct access to the Hardy Toll Road expressway, George Bush Intercontinental Airport has scheduled flights to a large number of domestic and international destinations covering five continents. Located about 23 miles (37 km) north of Downtown Houston between Interstate 45 and Interstate 69/ U.S. George Bush Intercontinental Airport ( IATA: IAH, ICAO: KIAH, FAA LID: IAH) is an international airport in Houston, Texas, United States, serving the Greater Houston metropolitan area. Sources: and Federal Aviation Administration
