Hobby "INTERNATIONAL" Airport (update) (Houston, Sugar Land: construction, moving, land)

[HouTXmetro]

Houston Airport Boss Supports International Flights

I really hope this Happens being that Hobby is closer to the Heart of the city. Think it will be a game changer for the city. Furthermore, United fka Continental should have never moved its head quarters. So I have little sympathy for them.

[westhou]

Why do people get so upset that Continental moved their headquarters to Chicago? There had to be some smart business reason for them doing it. People act like they did it to punish Houston. Businesses move when it makes economical sense to them. I'm sure Houston has benefited from companies moving here from other cities.

[timtemtym]

Hobby was the original Houston International and I can't wait to see what they do with it. What we really need is a Westside airport, but that seems to never work out in the planning. Perhaps in a few decades we'll be booking flights out of Sugar Land International. I'm sure they'll call it SLX or something fancy, west coasty.

[llmrkc07]

This is good. Now I hope they can fix up the area around Hobby Airport.

[blkgiraffe]

Originally Posted by westhou

Why do people get so upset that Continental moved their headquarters to Chicago? There had to be some smart business reason for them doing it. People act like they did it to punish Houston. Businesses move when it makes economical sense to them. I'm sure Houston has benefited from companies moving here from other cities.

Because the quality and politics of the company has changed. I'm sure in the beginning it was based on bragging rights, but now it's more about business.

[JimBaker488]

Originally Posted by westhou

Why do people get so upset that Continental moved their headquarters to Chicago? There had to be some smart business reason for them doing it. People act like they did it to punish Houston. Businesses move when it makes economical sense to them. I'm sure Houston has benefited from companies moving here from other cities.

Waste Management moved it's headquarters from Chi-Town to Houston, does anybody think people in Chicago stewed about losing one corp HDs ? Of course not, they took a loss, picked themselves up, and moved on.
On the other hand, a lot of people in Houston acted like a bunch of little kids crying and bellyaching because they lost a single headquarters to another city.
Chicago is more of an international city than Houston at this time by way of being a more mature city, but there's no way Houston will close that lead by sapping the strength of it's primary airport thru spreading out international flight connections to a second airport.
Most people in Houston aren't sophisticated enough about the aviation industry to understand that, so hopefully it's corporate leaders will save the city and it's inexperienced mayor from making a mistake that would harm it and it's growth over the long-term thru a decision that would have an adverse effect upon one of the primary components of it's infrastructure ?

[tebor79]

Originally Posted by westhou

Why do people get so upset that Continental moved their headquarters to Chicago? There had to be some smart business reason for them doing it. People act like they did it to punish Houston. Businesses move when it makes economical sense to them. I'm sure Houston has benefited from companies moving here from other cities.

there are plenty of reasons to be upset about it.

local job loss
office vacancy, which can only hurt new office tower construction
death of a Houston based company
No more Houston based airline
United's service is horrible.
etc.

[tebor79]

Originally Posted by JimBaker488

Waste Management moved it's headquarters from Chi-Town to Houston, does anybody think people in Chicago stewed about losing one corp HDs ? Of course not, they took a loss, picked themselves up, and moved on.
On the other hand, a lot of people in Houston acted like a bunch of little kids crying and bellyaching because they lost a single headquarters to another city.
Chicago is more of an international city than Houston at this time by way of being a more mature city, but there's no way Houston will close that lead by sapping the strength of it's primary airport thru spreading out international flight connections to a second airport.
Most people in Houston aren't sophisticated enough about the aviation industry to understand that, so hopefully it's corporate leaders will save the city and it's inexperienced mayor from making a mistake that would harm it and it's growth over the long-term thru a decision that would have an adverse effect upon one of the primary components of it's infrastructure ?

Your the first person I've seen that was opposed to southwest's expansion of Hobby for international flights.
thank goodness we have you and your sophisticated understanding of aviation to set us dumb Texans strait.

and please explain how competition will harm growth long term.

[Trae713]

Originally Posted by JimBaker488

Waste Management moved it's headquarters from Chi-Town to Houston, does anybody think people in Chicago stewed about losing one corp HDs ? Of course not, they took a loss, picked themselves up, and moved on.
On the other hand, a lot of people in Houston acted like a bunch of little kids crying and bellyaching because they lost a single headquarters to another city.
Chicago is more of an international city than Houston at this time by way of being a more mature city, but there's no way Houston will close that lead by sapping the strength of it's primary airport thru spreading out international flight connections to a second airport.
Most people in Houston aren't sophisticated enough about the aviation industry to understand that, so hopefully it's corporate leaders will save the city and it's inexperienced mayor from making a mistake that would harm it and it's growth over the long-term thru a decision that would have an adverse effect upon one of the primary components of it's infrastructure ?

Do you work for United because you're post doesn't make any sense. Not sure if you understand the capitalism or not.

[MIBS98]

Originally Posted by westhou

Why do people get so upset that Continental moved their headquarters to Chicago? There had to be some smart business reason for them doing it. People act like they did it to punish Houston. Businesses move when it makes economical sense to them. I'm sure Houston has benefited from companies moving here from other cities.

No smart business reason in it, just a simple reality of mergers. One merger partner is always in the upper position. The "winner"retains its corporate HQ, its name, etc. That is why the Continental name no longer exists and why the HQ is in Chicago. I also don't understand why people are so upset about it. That is just life in the business world.

On the other hand, as somebody else mentioned, I no longer like the ex-Continental because United is a horrible airline.