United States: Texas: Harris County: Houston: George Bush Intercontinental Airport

Jim Carson
Bellevue

Worth visiting!

Terminal B blows

As the other commenter said, Terminal B, Continental Express, is a teeming mass of humanity and too few seats. It’s a terrible place to sit.

Terminal E, where I am typing now, has good wireless connectivity and some kind of second level area. Pappasito’s Cantina does passable TexMex (not as good as the civilian version); just around the corner is the Little Creamery featuring Blue Bell ice cream. I recommend the vanilla.

And while you’re connecting terminals, cheer my photo of the statue of

George H.W. Bush, for whom the airport is named. (This is not the image that I have when I think of GHWB.)

Comments:

russellviii
Layton

I had a long connection there once

I wandered around the airport for a while. I saw Terminal B. People were packed in there pretty tightly.

I got out of there as quickly as I could. Not a pleasant place to hang out.

Laurel Fan
Seattle

At least he has pants on

The small picture makes the statue look like David:

joie de vivre
Bellevue

without pants

It might be the George W Bush Incontinental Airport.

woodstockdc
Washington, D.C.

Are those shoulder pads?

It sort of looks like they’ve got him wearing football shoulder pads. As for the rest, I have a male friend who has done some modeling and, as he would say, the rest “doesn’t look natural.” At least you aren’t in Atlanta which I think is the most undertoileted airport in the continental U.S.

joie de vivre
Bellevue

See my other comment

If you’re going to be an incontinental airport, you don’t want to be undertoileted.

Jim Carson
Bellevue

Hotlanta

Ah, but I was connecting from Atlanta. Not only is Hartsfield-Jackson under-toileted, it’s also under air conditioned, especially in the non-Delta concourse D.

woodstockdc
Washington, D.C.

Wait...

There’s a non-Delta terminal in Atlanta? That’s like there being a non-American Airlines terminal in Dallas. ;)

An acquaintance of mine sent me a more than moderately racist joke about Air Iran and Air Iraq being routed to the same landing strip in Atlanta and my first thought, literally, was “wait, someone besides Delta flies out of Atlanta?”

Jim Carson
Bellevue

It's true

but Continental, Northwest, Alaska Airlines and Air France are all part of the same frequent flier mileage cabal. They can land, but are relegated to terminals in the distant part of the Hartfield-Jackson Galaxy.

FlyGirl
Houston

You Can't Tell It

But the “shoulderpad” is actually a jacket he has flung over one shoulder. Or at least that is how the artist depicted it. And you’re right—it is a very good thing he is wearing pants.


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