Airport Facts

• 20 miles from Downtown Houston

• Nonstop service to 116 domestic destinations

• Nonstop or direct service to 70 international destinations

• Houston is the largest hub for the newly merged United Airlines, measured by daily departing seats available.

• More 700 daily departures

• Ranked No. 3 in the country for most scheduled nonstop destinations

• Ranked 8th in the U.S. for total passenger traffic

• Ranked 8th in the U.S. for international passenger traffic

• Ranked 18th in the world for total passenger traffic

• 17 passenger airlines

• With nearly 30 destinations in Mexico, IAH offers service to more Mexican destinations than any other US airport

• 16 passenger airlines

• More than 11,000 acres

• More than 24,500 parking spaces

• New $440 million Terminal E and Federal Inspection Services (FIS) with 84 primary inspection booths that can process more than 4,500 passengers per hour

• One of 20 airports in the nation to deploy a Global Entry kiosk that can turn an hour wait in the customs line into an average of 40 seconds.

• Travel + Leisure ranked Houston for having America's Best Airports (2010).

• Ranked No. 4 for customer satisfaction among large North American airports in a study by J.D. Power and Associates (2008)

• Voted the No. 4 airport in the country by readers of Global Traveler magazine (2008).