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Houston Hobby, TX (HOU)
Starting Service:

Nov. 14, 1971

Six daily nonstop flights to Dallas and three daily nonstop flights to San Antonio—completing the triangle on the cocktail napkin.

3rd city in Southwest system.

Current Service:

Houston Hobby is Southwest’s sixth busiest airport in terms of daily departures.

144 daily nonstop departures to 29 cities: Albuquerque, Austin, Baltimore/Washington, Birmingham, Chicago Midway, Corpus Christi, Dallas, Denver, El Paso, Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood, Harlingen/South Padre Island, Jackson, Jacksonville, Las Vegas, Little Rock, Los Angeles, Midland/Odessa, Nashville, New Orleans, Oakland, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, St. Louis, San Antonio, San Diego, Tampa Bay and Tulsa.

Additional direct or connecting service to 34 cities.

Gates: 17
Employees:

Flight Attendant Base: 838
Pilot Base: 585
Ground Operations: 480
Reservations: 429
Maintenance: 339
Provisioning: 55
Marketing: 9

Total: 2,735


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