#houstonhobby

[sentinelchicken]

Houston Hobby was one of the original three destinations served by Southwest in 1971 at a time when everyone else vacated HOU for Houston Intercontinental (IAH) north of the city which opened in 1969. Southwest now carries 93% of the passengers at Hobby with the busiest route out of here being Dallas Love Field. DAL has always been the most popular destination airport from HOU, I always figured that was mostly DAL passengers transiting through Hobby to get around the Wright Amendment. But going over the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for passenger traffic at HOU and comparing before the Wright Amendment repeal in 2014 to now, DAL remains the top destination and if anything, five years ago Southwest accounted for 88% of passengers at HOU and now it’s 93%. Some of that market share growth came with the AirTran acquisition but it doesn’t account for all of it. I suspect most of it has to do with Houston and Dallas being such significant economic and population centers, the traffic between DAL and HOU will always be tremendous on account of both airports being much closer to the downtown of both cities compared to DFW and IAH. #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KHOU #HOU #HoustonHobby #airport #planespotting #instaplane #instagramaviation #Avgeekery #Boeing #737 #Southwest #SWApics #splendid_transport #instaaviation #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge (at William P. Hobby Airport)

[sentinelchicken]

The other day Southwest finally retired its last Boeing 737-300s. I knew on this particular flight back in June (HOU-DAL) that this would be my last time on a 737-300 as Southwest is pretty much the last significant US airline operator of the -300. Southwest began 737-300 services in December 1984 as the launch customer along with USAir. Both airlines each ordered 10 737-300s with options for 20 each in March 1981. The -300 was the most successful variant of the 737-300/400/500 family with the prototype rolling out at Renton in 17 January 1984 and the last 737-300 being delivered to Air New Zealand on 17 December 1999. The 737-300 is near synonymous with Southwest, having operated nearly 200 in the airline’s history. That comes out to nearly 20% of the 737-300 production (18% to be exact) having flown in the colors of Southwest Airlines. #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KHOU #HOU #HoustonHobby #airport #planespotting #instaplane #instagramaviation #Avgeekery #Boeing #737 #Southwest #SWApics #splendid_transport #instaaviation #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge (at William P. Hobby Airport)

[sentinelchicken]

This surprised me a bit, a Southwest 737-700 with split scimitar winglets. Southwest was getting split scimitar winglets on their 737-800s but last summer I’d read that they were less then impressed with the fuel savings of the split scimitar over the standard blended winglet. I guess that’s changed or what I had seen last summer was inaccurate. Those in the know, what’s the real story? The split scimitar winglet isn’t really a whole new winglet but rather a retrofit of the blended winglet that strengthens it, adds a “streamwise spike” end cap to the top of the winglet and a new lower winglet that also has the same streamwise spike. The spike diffuses the wingtip vortex even further than what the blended winglet does, thereby decreasing the drag caused by the vortex. #Avgeek #aviation #aircraft #planeporn #KHOU #HOU #HoustonHobby #airport #planespotting #instaplane #instagramaviation #Avgeekery #Boeing #737 #Southwest #splendid_transport #instaaviation #AvgeekSchoolofKnowledge (at William P. Hobby Airport)

[nerdygirlk]

Back home to see my best friends get married in two days! #onceuponaciviletti #vacation #houstonhobby #houstontonewyork #nyc #laguardiaairport (at William P. Hobby Airport) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnuVZ0wjtwe/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qzia71beeb8d

[jdsationnorth-blog]

Happy Wednesday everybody, on my way to New Mexico again....the long way BWI-MKE-HOU-ABQ #crewlife #swa #bwi #mke #hou #houstonhobby #abq (at Pennsylvania Station (Baltimore))

[nerdygirlk]

And just like that I'm going home for Christmas ✌ #christmas #texastonewyork #vacation #christmas2017 #houstonhobby #laguardia #texas #newyork #nyc #traveling (at William P. Hobby Airport)

[kimjameson]

I’ll have what Snow White’s having. #candyforbreakfast #snowwhite #sensibleshoes #airportmeal #houstonhobby (at William P. Hobby Airport)

[jkj737noevir-blog]

#thekingofcountry #georgestrait #texasmonthly #houstonhobby #southwestairlines