George Bush Intercontinental Airport is an international airport serving the Greater Houston area. is an international airport serving the Greater Houston area. It is located 23 miles (37 km) north of downtown Houston—between Interstate 45 and U.S. Highway 59—and is adjacent to the city of Humble.

Bush Intercontinental is Texas's second-largest air facility—after Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. The airport has flights to destinations in the United States; as well as to Canada, Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.

George Bush Intercontinental Airport is the ninth busiest for total passengers and the seventh largest international passenger gateway in the United States as well as the sixth busiest airport in the world for total aircraft movements according to the ACI World Traffic Report for 2005. In 2006, the United States Department of Transportation named George Bush Intercontinental Airport the fastest growing of the top ten airports in the United States.