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IAH
Airport information
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
Houston, United StatesIATA: IAHICAO: KIAH
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Departures
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Live radar
Live radar around the airport
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The runways at this airport
What do the colors mean?
- No traffic seen The runway is there, but we see nothing on it right now.
- Arriving traffic Aircraft are descending toward this runway right now.
- Departing traffic Aircraft are climbing out from this runway right now.
- Direction unknown It says “in use now” without an arrow: we see traffic, but the aircraft does not report whether it is climbing or descending.
The white arrow on the runway points the way the traffic is going. Derived from the positions of aircraft flying low near the airport right now. Not an official runway plan; what we see.
Designation, direction and length of every runway. These rarely change; which one is in use right now shows up here whenever we observe traffic.
5 runways · Longest runway: 12,001 ft
- 15L/33R12,001 ft · heading 152/332 degrees
- 09/27in use now10,000 ft · heading 90/270 degrees
- 15R/33L10,000 ft · heading 152/332 degrees
- 08R/26L9,402 ft · heading 90/270 degrees
- 08L/26R9,000 ft · heading 90/270 degrees
Runway data: OurAirports, public domain.
Practical
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Transport by bus and taxi; parking at the airport; picking someone up or dropping them off.
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Direct destinations
The destinations we know the most flight numbers for. That approximates how heavily a route is served; it is not a passenger count.
DFWUnited States
Dallas-Fort Worth
- Distance
- 225 mi
- Estimated duration
- 45m
- Airlines
AeroLogic · American Airlines · +8
AeroLogic · American Airlines · Envoy Air · FedEx · Mesa Airlines · PSA Airlines · SkyWest Airlines · Spirit Airlines · United Airlines · UPS Airlines
ORDUnited States
Chicago
- Distance
- 926 mi
- Estimated duration
- 2h 5m
- Airlines
Aero Zano · American Airlines · +9
Aero Zano · American Airlines · CommuteAir · Envoy Air · Frontier Airlines · GoJet Airlines LLC · Republic Airways · Silk Way West Airlines · SkyWest Airlines · Spirit Airlines · United Airlines
ATLUnited States
Atlanta
- Distance
- 688 mi
- Estimated duration
- 1h 32m
- Airlines
Aero Zano · Delta Air Lines · +7
Aero Zano · Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · GlobalX · Mesa Airlines · Royal Air Force · SkyWest Airlines · Spirit Airlines · United Airlines
DENUnited States
Denver
- Distance
- 862 mi
- Estimated duration
- 2h 1m
- Airlines
Aero Zano · Air Transport International · +6
Aero Zano · Air Transport International · Atlas Air · Delta Air Lines · Frontier Airlines · Mesa Airlines · SkyWest Airlines · United Airlines
Airports nearby
Other airports within reach, with the straight-line distance and the number of direct destinations we know of. Airports without scheduled service are left out.
- HoustonWilliam P. Hobby AirportHOU24 mi85 destinations
- AustinAustin Bergstrom International AirportAUS140 mi110 destinations
- Fort CavazosKilleen Regional Airport / Robert Gray Army AirfieldGRK166 mi28 destinations
- San AntonioSan Antonio International AirportSAT190 mi68 destinations
- ShreveportShreveport Regional AirportSHV192 mi17 destinations
Airport facts
Practical information
- Full name
- George Bush Intercontinental Airport
- City and country
- Houston, United States
- IATA / ICAO
- IAH / KIAH
- Time zone
- America/Chicago
- Terminal
- A, B, C, D, E
- Category
- International hub
Terminals: © OpenStreetMap contributors
IAH Airport: live flight status at George Bush Intercontinental
Houston's George Bush Intercontinental Airport, listed under IATA code IAH and ICAO code KIAH, is one of the large airports in our United States coverage, and our own 30-day reception measurement puts its traffic at an average level. The fastest way to the current flight status at IAH Airport is the pair of arrivals and departures pages linked above the radar on this page: they follow every arrival and departure as it develops, so a delayed inbound or an early pushback shows up the moment it happens, while the radar itself shows the aircraft around Houston right now. What neither of them can tell you is covered below: what our measurement actually recorded at this airport over a full month, which airlines dominated that measurement, and which other airports around Houston can serve as a fallback.
Our own 30-day measurement at IAH
Over 30 consecutive days, our reception measurement logged an average of 5.2 aircraft observations per day near George Bush Intercontinental, and that sits alongside the average traffic level we assign to the airport. That average is the plain mean over the 30 days, so a single busy day does not lift it much. The busiest window in the measurement ran from 00:00 to 02:00, and that time needs one caveat: our measurement clock runs in UTC, not Houston local time. For an airport of IAH's size, 5.2 logged observations per day is a reception figure rather than a timetable: it describes what our measurement picked up near this airport in that month, nothing more. In our records the airport is listed at coordinates 29.9844, -95.3414.
United out in front, Delta and American close together
Three carriers appeared in our IAH data, and the ranking is lopsided. United Airlines accounted for 53 of the observations we logged in 30 days, far more than either competitor; a specific United service is easiest to follow on our United Airlines flight status page. Behind it, the race is tight: Delta Air Lines showed up in 11 of our measurements and American Airlines in 10 over the same period. Both have their own pages as well, the Delta status page and the American Airlines status page, which is where to look when you already know which of the two operates your flight.
Fallback airports around Houston
When a flight via IAH does not work out, the region offers alternatives. William P. Hobby Airport is by far the nearest at 38 km and has its own page on this site. Considerably farther out, Easterwood Field lies at 119 km, so it mainly makes sense for travelers already heading in that direction, and Jack Brooks Regional Airport follows at 127 km. All three distances come from our own airport data. For a wider view, our airport overview is the starting point for the other American airports we cover.