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William P. Hobby Airport is an international airport in Houston, Texas, from downtown Houston.〔"(Frontier Airlines to change airports in Houston )." ''Denver Business Journal''. Monday August 9, 2010. Retrieved on March 27, 2011.〕 Hobby is Houston's oldest commercial airport and was its primary commercial airport until Houston Intercontinental Airport, now George Bush Intercontinental Airport, opened in 1969. After the opening of Intercontinental, Hobby became a secondary airport for domestic airline service as well as a regional center for corporate and private aviation. Houston is a focus city for Southwest Airlines, and was the seventh-largest city in Southwest's network as of 2015. Southwest opened its first international terminal at Hobby, it began service from Hobby to Mexico and Central and South America on October 15, 2015. The airport covers and has four runways. Its original art deco terminal building, which was the first passenger airline terminal in Houston, now houses the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. == History == Hobby Airport opened in 1927 as a private landing field in a pasture known as W.T. Carter Field. The airfield was served by Braniff International Airways and Eastern Air Lines. The site was acquired by the city of Houston and was named Houston Municipal Airport in 1937.〔"(History of Hobby Airport )," ''Houston Airport System''〕 The airport was renamed Howard R. Hughes Airport in 1938. Howard Hughes was responsible for several improvements to the airport, including its first control tower, built in 1938.〔 The airport's name changed back to Houston Municipal because Hughes was still alive at the time and regulations did not allow federal improvement funds for an airport named after a living person. The city of Houston opened and dedicated a new air terminal and hangar in 1940. In 1950 Pan Am initiated nonstop Douglas DC-4 propliner service to Mexico City. On October 1, 1950, Chicago and Southern Air Lines began flying new Lockheed Constellation propliners nonstop to St. Louis on a daily basis with direct one stop service to Chicago Midway Airport.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Oct. 1, 1960 Chicago & Southern Air Lines system timetable〕 At this same time, Chicago & Southern was operating nonstop service between the airport and New Orleans with the sole purpose of these flights being the ability to connect passengers to and from the airline's daily Douglas DC-4 "Caribbean Comet" flights between New Orleans and Havana, Cuba; Kingston, Jamaica and Caracas, Venezuela as Chicago & Southern did not have local traffic rights between Houston and New Orleans at the time.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Oct. 1, 1960 Chicago & Southern Air Lines system timetable〕 By 1953, Chicago & Southern (C&S) had been acquired by and merged into Delta Air Lines thus giving Delta access to Houston for the first time.〔http://www.deltamuseum.org, Chicago and Southern (C&S) Air Lines〕 In 1954, Delta, operating as "Delta C&S", was flying daily international service with a "Super" Convair 340 on a routing of Houston - New Orleans - Havana, Cuba - Port au Prince, Haiti - Ciudad Trujillo (now Santo Domingo), Dominican Republic - San Juan, Puerto Rico.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Aug. 1, 1954 Delta C&S system timetable〕 Also in 1954 an expanded terminal building opened to support the 53,640 airline flights that carried 910,047 passengers.〔https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/epwhe〕 The airport was renamed Houston International Airport the same year. The April 1957 Official Airline Guide shows 26 weekday departures on Eastern, 20 on Braniff (plus four departures a week to/from South America), nine on Continental Airlines, nine on Delta Air Lines, nine on Trans-Texas Airways, four on National Airlines, two on Pan American World Airways and one on American Airlines. There were nonstops to New York City and Washington D.C., but not to Chicago or Denver or anywhere further west of Colorado at this time. Later in 1957, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines started Douglas DC-7C propliner flights to Amsterdam via an intermediate stop in Montreal. In 1958, Delta was operating daily nonstop Douglas DC-7 service to New York City as well as weekly DC-7 service direct to Caracas, Venezuela via an intermediate stop in New Orleans (with this service being called the "El Petrolero" by the airline)〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Aug. 1, 1958 Delta Air Lines system timetable〕 while Eastern was operating Douglas DC-7 and Lockheed Constellation aircraft nonstop to New York City as well.〔http://www.timetableimages.com, Dec. 1, 1958 Eastern Air Lines system timetable.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William P. Hobby Airport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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