Flights from Raleigh to Houston

• Continental Airlines, ExpressJet Airlines, Chautauqua Airlines offer flights from Raleigh, NC to Houston, TX.
• ExpressJet Airlines, Continental Airlines operate the shortest flights from Raleigh to Houston.
• Continental Airlines offers the shortest flight times from Raleigh to Houston.
• The smallest aircraft servicing flights from RDU to IAH for Chautauqua Airlines is the EMB-145 built by Embraer with 50 seats.
• 146,258 seats were available on flights from RDU to IAH in 2009. Of those seats, a total of 125,642 passengers flew on all flights from RDU to IAH that year.
• Continental Airlines operated flights from RDU to IAH using 5 types of aircraft in 2009.
• The newest aircraft servicing RDU to IAH in 2009 was Continental Airlines' B737-9 from Boeing. The B737-9 started flying in 2002.
• In 2009, there were 3 airline companies operating between Raleigh and Houston.
• The oldest aircraft servicing trips from Raleigh, NC to Houston, TX in 2009 was Continental Airlines' B737-5 from Boeing which started flying in 1990.
• The average aircraft occupancy on flights from Raleigh to Houston in 2009 was 82.29%.
• The shortest flight between RDU and IAH takes about 151 minutes.
• The shortest flight distance between Raleigh and Houston is 1043 miles.
• There were 125,642 passengers that flew from Raleigh to Houston in 2009.
• The largest aircraft servicing flights between Raleigh and Houston from Continental Airlines is the B737-9 built by Boeing with 171 seats.
• The average flight time from Raleigh, NC to Houston, TX takes about 152 minutes.
• Continental Airlines carried a total of 76,030 passengers from RDU to IAH in 2009.
• Flight #151, operated by Continental Airlines, was the flight with the most delays in 2009, with 4 minutes average delay between flights from Raleigh to Houston.

(Source: FAA & BTS 2009 Databases)