Southwest Airlines is pushing for a $250 million expansion at Houston Hobby Airport, a move that could further boost the Texas airport’s stature with the...
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is paying $230 million up front for a seven-gate expansion at Houston Hobby Airport, which is already the seventh busiest airport in its system.Kyle ArnoldSouthwest Airlines is pushing for a $250 million expansion at Houston Hobby Airport, a move that could further boost the Texas airport’s stature with the Dallas-based carrier.on the seven-gate expansion at Houston’s smaller airport, and Southwest plans to pay for the rest of the $230 million in advance.
“We’re working collaboratively with the Houston Airport System to design a seven-gate expansion to Hobby Airport’s west concourse,” said Southwest spokesman Dan Landson. “The action approved by the Houston City Council allows us to move forward with defining and designing the project.”Houston Hobby has been an important cog in Southwest’s flight network, the seventh-busiest airport for the airline with about 131 flights a day in March, according to flight schedule service Diio by Cirium.
Like many of Southwest’s key stops, Houston Hobby is that city’s smaller airport, with about 6.5 million passengers getting on flights there in 2019, making it slightly less busy than Dallas Love Field, where Southwest Airlines is headquartered. Houston’s other airport, George Bush Intercontinental, gets about three times as many passengers as Hobby.