HOU Houston

How deep the HOU board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from HOU. This reads the same 145 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound and what the clock here does to a Gulf working day, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 95of the 145 destinations are flown by one airline
• 92destinations run less than once a day
• 16destinations have four or more departures a day
• 40.7%of the destinations name Southwest Airlines, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at HOU

52 airlines appear on the HOU board and they do not hold it evenly. Southwest Airlines is on 59 of the 145 destinations, 40.7 per cent of them, and on 30 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 176.8 of the 205.5 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is NetJets Aviation on 35 destinations. 25 of the 52 airlines at HOU appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at HOU: one airline on 40.7 per cent of the destinations and the other 59.3 per cent spread across 51 airlines. A cancellation inside the Southwest Airlines network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 86 destinations Southwest Airlines does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the HOU board is daily

Of the 145 destinations, 53 are flown at least once a day and 92 are not, 48 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the HOU board is flown 3 times a week.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: HOU to Wichita (ICT) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 48.1 of the 205.5 departures a day, 23.4 per cent of the whole board. With 63.4 per cent of the 145 destinations running less than daily, this is a board that rewards booking the outbound before the collection is confirmed rather than after.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Abilene ABI	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	520	plan this
Alamosa ALS	the United States	Flexjet	1	1,307	plan this
Amarillo AMA	the United States	American Jet International	1	864	plan this
Aspen ASE	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,502	plan this
Bedford BED	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	2,571	plan this
Belmar/Farmingdale BLM	the United States	Flexjet	1	2,248	plan this
Boca Raton BCT	the United States	Jet Linx Aviation	1	1,532	plan this
Brainerd BRD	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,866	plan this
Branson BKG	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	790	plan this
Bristol/Johnson/Kingsport TRI	the United States	NetJets Aviation	1	1,418	plan this

The ten destinations out of HOU where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 63 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from HOU

The desk holds the return direction for 42 of the 145 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On four of them the return into HOU runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Minneapolis (MSP) at 0.71 out a day against 0.14 back, Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) at 6.1 out a day against 1.3 back and Atlanta (ATL) at 8 out a day against 4.3 back.

It runs the other way as well: Washington (IAD) files 0.71 a day back into HOU against 0.29 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at HOU

HOU keeps America/Chicago time, nine hours behind Dubai in summer and ten hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 00:00 at HOU, and a nine to six day at each end does not overlap at all, so an instruction written in Dubai is read here on the following working day unless somebody is woken up.

Where HOU turns up on the rest of this site

The airport also sits behind the United States country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport.

The site publishes 14 airport pair pages that start or end at HOU, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Houston to Dallas (DAL), Houston to Chicago (MDW) and Houston to Las Vegas (LAS).

Ten courier postings name HOU as the airport a courier here flies from: Cypress, Beaumont and College Station.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with HOU already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 145 destinations above.