Car service at William P. Hobby (HOU)

Where the chauffeur waits at HOU

William P. Hobby (HOU) is Houston’s close-in airport, a single terminal seven miles from downtown. Pick-ups are made at baggage claim, lower level. Book with the flight number rather than a time: the arrival is tracked, so an early landing or a long taxi moves the chauffeur instead of costing you the car.

Departures from HOU

Cars leave HOU on I-45 south and the Gulf Freeway, which is how Houston is reached from here. For a departure, the pick-up time is set backwards from the check-in desk rather than from the gate, and a chauffeur who knows which terminal you fly from saves the lap of the loop road that a map does not account for.

The work at HOU

Corporate arrivals and departures make up most of the weekday traffic here — a car held between meetings, a client met at arrivals with a name board, or a straight run to a hotel. Groups arriving on one flight take a Sprinter or a bus so the party stays together and the luggage travels with it.