Are there two major airports in Houston, or did one just change its name?

[Gingersnap]

Is the George Bush international airport the same as Houston-IAH?

A friend and I are trying to buy tickets and the flights I found on-line are all to George Bush, but all he can find are to IAH (we're flying from different locations). Just wondering if the different search engines have different names for the same airport, or if indeed there are two airports.

Thanks.

[GOPisEvil]

1. IAH is GHWBush Intercontinental...HOU is Houston Hobby

Edit - I know how to spell Houston, really. I was just there.

[Richardo]

9. What he said...

;-)

[Gringo]

2. It used to be Houston Intercontinental and Houston Hobby

I don't know if Hobby still exists, but Intercontinental has become IAH, and G. H. W. Bush Airport. Last time I was there, they had erected an abominable statue to honor the Iran-Contra co-conspirator. Disgusting.

[XNASA]

3. Yes.........and Yes!!

Bush was once called Intercontinental Airport Houston. So IAH is Bush.

The other major airport is Hobby. Which is HOU I believe.

[Lisa0825]

4. IAH was the code for Intercontinental, which was later renamed Bush,

but the code is still IAH. The code for Hobby is HOU. I have refused to call it "Bush" since the name change. It will be always be Intercontinental to me! Honestly, most area residents still call it Intercontinental anyway. Technically, it is called George Bush Intercontinental, so I see no need to ever change what I call it.

http://www.houstonairportsystem.org/

[RobertSeattle]

5. I don't care who it is, wait till they are DEAD!

This (primarily GOP) phenomena of Hero Worship (of living people) is Stalineque.

No naming until after someone is dead 25 years!

[Lisa0825]

7. I completely agree!!!

[Richardo]

10. Friend of mine from out of town calls it "Bush Intergalactic Landing Zone"

Plays up that self-grandiosity we do so well here in houston.

[peekaloo]

14. your friend is much too kind and refined

I tell friends to meet me at the Idiot Arse Hole plane convention thingie.

Ill mannered I am. :shrug:

[Richardo]

15. Hee!

LMAO, peekaloo! :thumbsup:

[Richardo]

11. Hell - they renamed it during one of my business trips...

...left from Intercontinental on Monday, returned to George Bush Intercontinental on Thursday.

A true :wtf: moment. No debate. No notice. No nothing. Purely by decree.

[Gingersnap]

6. thanks everybody!

Sometimes getting info from a local is a lot better than Google. I think it is just disgusting that they named the airport after him. But isn't there a Ronald Reagan aiport somewhere too?

[GOPisEvil]

8. DCA - National Airport in the DC area.

[damnraddem]

12. I don't know about the Bush part.

But weren't there were two airports anyway: International and Hobby?

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. Soooo - does the NEXT President get to rename the airport ?

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Interesting,

one of the first things that the Texacutioner did after occupying Iraq was to rename Saddam Airport