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History

I think the history section should be expanded to include the terminals buildings and additional topics. I added an ext link to the 1940 Air Terminal Museum. At one time Hobby (or Houston International) had a monorail system (so I heard). Have you heard of this? Postoak 03:48, 27 December 2006 (UTC) Here's something about the monorial, but I'm not sure if it was ever in production use. [1][reply]

The old Sky Taxi was a short monorail that looped from the terminal

building out around what is now the multi-level parking garage and back to the terminal building. At the time (1965) there was only a surface-level blacktop parking lot between the terminal building and Airport Boulevard. The Sky Taxi was constructed in the wave of hype over the Seattle World’s Fair monorail and was at the time, along with the Astrodome, a mark of Houston’s cutting edge technology. Alas, before the Sky Taxi was fully functional it became obvious that more than a monorail, the airport required more parking. The Sky Taxi was abandoned and then dismantled. Before the parking situation was sorted out, Houston approved the construction of an newer, larger airport far to the north of the city. 202.79.62.19 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.19 ([[User talk:202.79.62.19|talk]]) 11:45, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Former Airlines

It was decided on the Sea-Tac talk page that the information about past airlines served little to no purpose and was removed. I didn't want to removed it here without asking the opinion first, but since the information on the Hobby article is slightly different in nature, I'll see what people think first. NW036 21:37, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

listing former airlines is useful. It's part of the history of the airport. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.79.62.16 (talk) 02:37, 7 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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Dubious Claim

“…Despite occasional claims of being the only U.S. commercial airport to be named after a woman, it was not named after Oveta Culp Hobby.” This is a rather suspicious claim. Can we have a citation of any documented case of someone claiming William P. Hobby is a woman and therefore the airport is named after a woman? Dubious at best. A single citation – just one – would transform this rather flimsy and clearly un-referenced claim in to something that is possibly worth retaining in this piece. Otherwise, what possible use is this meaningless bit of drivel? 202.79.62.19 11:01, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 19 June 2015

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Number 5 7 21:16, 6 July 2015 (UTC)[reply]

William P. Hobby Airport → Hobby Airport – WP:CONCISE and no ambiguity issues. --Relisted. George Ho (talk) 05:35, 26 June 2015 (UTC) Sovereign Sentinel (talk) 08:53, 19 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose. If I see "Hobby Airport", I'm going to think that it's a miscapitalised article on airports serving radio-controlled aircraft hobbyists. Nyttend (talk) 16:35, 22 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose - prefer this convention, see John F. Kennedy International Airport. Postoak (talk) 19:43, 26 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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