<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">In 1957, a group of businessmen from Houston bought the land for Bush Intercontinental Airport to keep it safe until the city of Houston came up with a plan for a new airport to replace William P. Hobby Airport, which was then called Houston International Airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">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.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Although the name Jetero was no longer used in official planning documents after 1961, the airport's eastern entrance was named Jetero Boulevard. Most of Jetero Boulevard was later renamed Will Clayton Parkway.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The City of Houston annexed the Intercontinental Airport area in 1965. 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.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Houston Intercontinental Airport, which was the original name for the airport, opened in June 1969. The airport's IATA code of IAH is derived from the stylization of the airport's name as "Intercontinental Airport of Houston." All scheduled passenger airline services that formerly operated from William P. Hobby Airport moved to Intercontinental upon the airport's completion.</p>
<p class="blog-para">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.</p>
<p class="blog-para">As of 2007, only Terminals A and B remain from the airport's original design. Lewis W. Cutrer Terminal C opened in 1981, the Mickey Leland International Arrivals Building (now called Terminal D) opened in May 1990, and the new Terminal E partially opened on June 3, 2003. The rest of Terminal E opened on January 7, 2004.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Terminal D is the arrival point for all international flights except for United flights, which use Terminal E. Flights from Canada on Air Canada and WestJet arrive in terminal A. Terminal D also held customs and INS until the opening of the new Federal Inspection Service (FIS) building, completed on January 25, 2005.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Ground Transportation George Bush Intercontinental Houston Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">From Downtown Houston, one can travel to George Bush Intercontinental by taking Interstate 69/U.S. Route 59 (Eastex Motorway) to Beltway 8 or to Will Clayton Parkway, and access the airport from either road.</p>
<p class="blog-para">FromFrom downtown, one could also take Interstate 45 (North Motorway), connect to Beltway 8, and enter the airport from the Beltway. The Hardy Toll Road has an exit from the north or south to the airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">METRO, which stands for the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, has bus stops on the south side of Terminal C.The 102 Bush IAH Express serves the airport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Previously, METRO also operated an express bus service known as Airport Direct, launched in the summer of 2008, which travelled from Downtown Houston to Terminal C via the HOV lanes of the Eastex Motorway (I-69) and US 59. In 2010, in an effort to increase ridership and maximise revenue, METRO reduced the fare of Airport Direct and closed a dedicated passenger plaza for the service in downtown Houston; instead, the bus stopped at several downtown hotels. The fare each way was reduced from $15 to $4.50. The fare change increased ridership levels but reduced cash flow. METRO consistently provided the service at an operational loss. However, in the summer of 2011, METRO announced it was discontinuing the Airport Direct service while the Route 102 local service (which serves the greater Greenspoint business and residential districts before travelling on I-45 to access downtown) continued to operate.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Carriers provide scheduled bus and shuttle services to locations from IAH to NRG Park and NRG Astrodome, Downtown Houston, Uptown, Greenway Plaza, the Texas Medical Centre, hotels in the Westchase and Energy Corridor business districts, the city of College Station, and William P. Hobby Airport. Super Shuttle uses shared vans to provide services from George Bush Intercontinental Airport to the surrounding communities.</p>
<p class="blog-para">CarriersTravelling to Houston has never been easier. As the country's fourth-largest airport system, the Houston Airport System serves over 180 cities worldwide, with Bush Intercontinental Airport ranking third in the United States among airports with scheduled non-stop domestic and international service.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Berlin-Brandenburg Airport has two parallel runways. With a spacing of 1,900 metres (6,200 ft), this allows independent flight operations without interference from wake turbulence.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The northern runway of BER is the southern runway of the old Sch&ouml;nefeld Airport and has been in use since the 1960s. To adapt it for the new airport, it has been renovated and lengthened from 3,000 to 3,600 metres (9,800 to 12,000 ft). The newly built southern runway has a length of 4,000 metres (13,000 feet) and was officially commissioned on May 31, 2012. Blackouts of the runway beacon on the southern runway led to investigations concerning air traffic safety.</p>
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