{"id":17746,"date":"2011-05-27T12:55:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/houston-intercontinental-airport-surpasses-o-hare-as-united-s-largest-hub\/"},"modified":"2011-05-27T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T12:55:00","slug":"houston-intercontinental-airport-surpasses-o-hare-as-united-s-largest-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/houston-intercontinental-airport-surpasses-o-hare-as-united-s-largest-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Intercontinental Airport Surpasses O\u2019Hare as United\u2019s Largest Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>More United flights operate out of Houston than anywhere else <\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe ongoing merger of operations between United and Continental Airlines means that Chicago&rsquo;s O&rsquo;Hare International Airport has been dethroned as United&rsquo;s largest hub.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat title now belongs to Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Houston&rsquo;s 630 daily United flights now narrowly eclipses O&rsquo;Hare&rsquo;s 607.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDespite losing the United crown, O&rsquo;Hare remains the busier of the two airports. Once number one in the world, O&rsquo;Hare is now fifth busiest airport on the globe. Houston comes in at a distant number 25 in terms of air traffic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/travel.usatoday.com\/flights\/post\/2011\/05\/houston-intercontinental-united-hub\/172157\/1\" target=\"_blank\">USA Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; More United flights operate out of Houston than anywhere else &nbsp; The ongoing merger of operations between United and Continental Airlines means that Chicago&rsquo;s O&rsquo;Hare International Airport has been dethroned as United&rsquo;s largest hub. &nbsp; That title now belongs to Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport. Houston&rsquo;s 630 daily United flights now narrowly eclipses O&rsquo;Hare&rsquo;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}