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Double-digit growth for HAS across the board 
At the Houston Airport System (HAS), both passenger and air cargo traffic for the month of September soared into double-digit growth. Just nine months into the current year, the airport system’s total passenger count at George Bush Intercontinental and William P. Hobby airports combined was up by 2.6 million – a significant year-over-year increase of 7.2 percent. The month of September alone registered a 15.8 percent increase in total passenger counts. Read Story  

"Ole, ole, ole, ole" - a victory for the Houston Dynamo
A flood of orange washed over Houston, today, as dozens of soccer fans gathered at Hobby Airport to welcome home their victorious Major League Soccer team – the Houston Dynamo. Cheers and applause echoed throughout the terminal as, one-by-one, several of the team’s MVP players made their way out of the airport. Read Story  

A new player in Houston’s general aviation market
With the recent addition of six new airport locations across the country – including a second facility in Houston – Atlantic Aviation is now running a network of 42 state-of-the-art fixed based operator (FBO)facilities. Through this considerable expansion, the aviation services provider is hoping to maintain a competitive edge on the growing number of fixed based operators popping up across the nation.  Read Story 

Houston an international hub for major events
New aircraft and carriers are not the only ones flocking into Houston - From quilts to swine and everything in between these days Houston’s major gathering spots are swarming with the likes of international celebrities, heavy-hitting politicos and even the latest and greatest in technology. All this as the fourth-largest city in the United States comes into its own right as a leader in the international convention and conferences business.  Read Story 

Looking to strike up new deals
It’s the largest growing population in the United States, and in Houston it’s the population that has given the city somewhat of a Latin flair. Anywhere you look in Houston – whether it’s at a shopping mall, a doctor’s office, a school or even a grocery store – it’s hard not to notice the impact of this community on the local identity. Yet despite their strength in numbers, the Hispanic population throughout the country continues to be severely underrepresented in the world of commerce. In Houston, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce was looking to change this situation by “bringing the mountain to Muhammad."  Read Story

Salvation in a suitcase: precious cargo
In the United States they’re items that are so abundant that often times they end up in landfills or dump sites – items like sutures, band aids, gloves, tubing, disinfectant solutions, needles, etc. For thousands of patients in need in virtually every continent of the world, however, these objects could represent the difference between life and death. Each year more than $9 billion worth of this precious cargo is salvaged in Houston and delivered to patients in need across the globe via the Houston Airport System.  Read Story

“Boss-lift” gives employers a taste of military life
Other than the fact that they are not at work and that they are out serving their country, many employers don’t know much about what their reservist employees do while their on active duty. For that reason, three decades ago, the Texas Air National Guard created the Employer Support of the Guard & Reserve program. Today, that program has been expanded to 56 different facilities across the nation – including the Houston Airport System’s Ellington Field.  Read Story

Bush’s Terminal E rated number one in Houston
Inaugurated in 1969, George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) is the largest airport in the city of Houston. Last year, it served a record 40 million passengers and moved more than 300,000 metric tons of air cargo – becoming the fourth-fastest growing airport in the world. Now, this year, according to the survey Ultimate Houston released by the Houston Chronicle, the airport’s Terminal E was selected as the number one airport terminal in the fourth-largest city in the United States.  Read Story

The push for global parity
The thirst for knowledge and an aspiration for greatness led more than a dozen airport officials to one of the largest airport systems in the world, recently, as they spent more than a week in Houston. Part of the Latin America & Caribbean region Airports Council International (ACI-LAC), the 18 airport executives that visited the Houston Airport System (HAS), this month, hailed from nine different countries. Among them Mexico, Colombia, Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago and Costa Rica.  Read Story

New explosive detection canine teams join IAH
Amidst explosive-detecting puffer machines, metal-detecting wands, agriculture-sniffing beagles and even an impressive army of human security personnel at Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), a three-year-old Belgian Malanois named Tomy will soon be moving into the airport – along with his human counterpart, Officer A. Parker of the Houston Police Department.  Read Story

Word at the airport is that Hobby is a “hit”
Two months short of its 80th anniversary-year, William P. Hobby Airport has a lot to be thankful for. Four months ago it was selected as the number one airport in the country for customer satisfaction by J.D. Power and Associates – and this month it’s still being touted as the best in the country by its passengers. Read Story

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