Originally Posted by
Andy
That may be.
But again, this 2 June report written by U of H doesn't paint a pretty economic picture of the region:
Resilience in the Face of a No-Growth Scenario
Nor does the anemic O&D growth out of IAH and HOU, which is really the most important stat for this topic. A lot of flying has been forced out of IAH; management has decided to reduce the amount of IAH forced flying. Flying will increase there as O&D traffic increases.
The O&D traffic is there. Business travel is down with oil down but we don't even have a true first class seat anymore anyway.
HOUSTON - No city in the United States is growing faster in population than Houston. Newly released census numbers show our growth beat out several major cities, including Dallas.
Census data shows Houston leads in population growth across U.S.