Houston Airport Skyway (COMPLETE Round Trip)

This is Houston Airport's above-ground elevated train that services all five terminals on the sterile side of the airport. There are four stops: Terminal A, Terminal B, Terminal C, and Terminals D/E. The round trip on this train averages about 12 minutes and only seems to be busy at the C and D/E Terminals.

[@phillipcastillo8519]

I always ride this thing around waiting for my flights to come in better than sitting in the terminal waiting area

[@ElevatingDenver]

phillip castillo same here. If I'm at an airport with trains, I tend to just ride the trains until I can get on the plane.

[@SpaceboyYT]

Maybe one day I can do that. My main International Airport is Denver International Airport.

[@phillipcastillo8519]

@@SpaceboyYT I went to Denver too I’d just ride the motorized walk way back and forth waiting for the plane

[@twinsterdude1186]

Oh.good idea,but u usually go domestic routes so hobby doesn’t got skyway

[@twinsterdude1186]

Denver has a train

[@JJR93]

I had to use this to get from Terminal A to Terminal D to go buy some CAD at the Currency Exchange in Terminal D before my Air Canada flight out of Terminal A. Luckily I had plenty of time to ride there and back and get a meal before my flight.

[@popia1956]

Gracias por el recorrido muy bonito lugar Houston y su aeropuerto es enorme valiosa información ℹ ℹ️ thanks

[@wilson579]

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[@TexMexTraveler]

Nice video. I live here in the Houston area and fly out of IAH frequently. Glad you go to ride the train during a slower period of the day. Often it can be like a sardine can with so many flights coming and at once during a busy "bank" as airlines call it. BTW, I am frequently in Denver, I love it there!!

[@ElevatingDenver]

TexMex Traveler I always try to ride without a lot of people, better videos that way. I'm not always lucky though. Cool that you visit Denver often, it's not as big as the cities in Texas, but there's still some neat things there. I'd like to actually see the city of Houston sometime, I've only ever been to the airport.

[@TexMexTraveler]

@@ElevatingDenver one of me and my wife's favorite BBQ places is up in Idaho Springs, it's called Smokin Yard BBQ. When I come up, I often stay in Longmont at a Marriott. If you ever want to plan a trip to see Houston, let me know, or if you have a really long layover, I'd be happy to swing by and scoop you up and show you around a little.

[@ryantossell6694]

Some other KZbin busiers live in Houston as well.

[@PopcornC4]

Nice video! we were about to go to Cancun when our flight was departing from the D & E and the International Arrivals Building .It was nice, we even took pictures of it and it looked nice, hopfully in the future,I can make Airport Airtrains from any airport.

[@robertmartin3490]

At my brother's college graduation, we had a man saying the statements in English and a woman translating it to Spanish. It reminded me of this train.

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[@terrysnyder2263]

Once arriving at a certain terminal, is it easy to find if you have a connecting flight leaving from a different terminal? I read it’s on the 3rd level but are there plenty of signs directing you to the Skyway?

[@ElevatingDenver]

The signs that direct you to other terminals will try to direct you to the Skyway train as well. It is upstairs on the third floor, just take the escalator or elevator up when you see the signs and the station is right at the top.

[@Spicy_Pita]

Is it tough to walk from Terminal C to Terminal A?? Or is it better to take this skyway. I have a layover of 51 minutes.

[@ElevatingDenver]

It's not crazy long to walk, but the train is faster.

[@devinchandler3352]

I am watching this because I am going from Salt Lake to this airport and then to Amsterdam which it looks like I will need to travel from A to D likely. I have 4 hours and 15 minutes so should be plenty of time but good to see what I need to do.

[@ElevatingDenver]

You'll have plenty of time to get from Terminal A to Terminal D. The train ride itself only takes about 5 minutes and trains arrive every minute or two. It's within the secure zone, so you won't have to worry about going through TSA again either. Just so you're aware though, this train is the only way to transfer to other terminals from Terminal A, as it's the only one not connected by walkways.

[@VideoGameFan7]

Why are terminals D and E combined?

[@wilson579]

1:50 The Train Is Arrived In Terminal B

[@OliversElevators]

You can really see the technological difference between systems that use Bombardier Innovia 100 vehicles at their airports (i.e. Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta) and systems that use Innovia 200 or 300 vehicles, like Dallas or Phoenix. Because the technology in the 200-series vehicles is much newer and the tracking system that keeps track of every train’s exact location is more accurate, the trains line up with the platform screen doors much more accurately and efficiently. With Innovia 100-series vehicles, the train slows down to about 1-2mph once it’s within 2 or so feet of the stopping position to be lined with the PSDs, and then coasts at that super slow speed for a few seconds until it’s lined up with the platform doors. However, even with this conservative braking approach, the trains still fail to perfectly line up with the doors, although some systems (Houston) seem to be worse at lining up with the doors than others (Atlanta). In contrast, the Innovia 200-series vehicles have a much more efficient braking curve when approaching and stopping at stations. They slow down to a full stop in one smooth run, without coasting at a slow speed to line up with the PSDs like the 100-series vehicles do. Additionally, they’re much better at lining up with the platform doors, and they’re faster at it as well. These little details just go to show how the vehicle-positioning technology used in Innovia systems has improved quite a bit from the 100- to the 200-series vehicles.

[@ElevatingDenver]

You know, that's definitely very true. The door line up is awful on the 100 series. I've seen times where it's been as bad as halfway across the opening misaligned. In terms of the Mitsubishi Crystal Movers, those seem to be very accurate as well. It's very similar to how elevators have changed as well. Older elevators had multiple travel speeds for traveling and leveling, whereas some newer ones have completely linear acceleration and deceleration. They are now much faster and more accurate at leveling.

[@frankiel.6774]

This train is the same as the Denver airport train. Except this system is newer than the Denver Airport. This was installed in May of 1999.

[@robertfromadventuresofrobe335]

Also, this system is elevated, where as the Denver one is underground.

[@ingridb.1209]

Me.encanta escuchar español

[@turner2002]

I think it's kinda cool how the announcements are in both English and Spanish

[@robertfromadventuresofrobe335]

It's also this way at Miami.

[@ryantossell6694]

There's an International Arrivals Building at Terminal D/E.

[@elevatorkid4814]

I know have you been on a skytrain

[@ryantossell6694]

On the Skylink @ DFW Airport yes. Not @ Houston George Bush Airport the Skyway.

[@elevatorkid4814]

@@ryantossell6694 ok what's the difference between DFW airport and the Houston Airport

[@ryantossell6694]

I’m not sure.

[@elevatorkid4814]

@@ryantossell6694 ok where was your first airport train

[@LR-1977]

i swear the outside announcements for all airport trains say the EXACT same thing

[@ElevatingDenver]

I know Denver and Houston do. The others vary, some don't have any platform announcements.

[@5300trilla]

I have a question

[@ElevatingDenver]

Ok, what's your question?

[@nicholasmohr1619]

Is this in the secure area?

[@ElevatingDenver]

Yes, it is in the secure area. There is a smaller underground APM that is not in the secure area. However, I'm not sure if that one is currently running.

[@nicholasmohr1619]

@@ElevatingDenverthanks for the information and the quick reply! I didn’t think this was in the secure area because of all the buildings around. I was thinking they were all hadtheir own ticketing/baggage claim and the terminallink was just to connect terminals together in the public area and all the terminals had separate security checkpoints. Nice to know all of the terminals are connected on the secure side.

[@elevatorkid4814]

Is that train for departures only or is it for arrivals too

[@ElevatingDenver]

Can be both. Its on the secure side of the airport.

[@elevatorkid4814]

@@ElevatingDenver ok dulles airport is departures only for the train

[@ElevatingDenver]

@@elevatorkid4814 you can use the Dulles Airport Train from the arrival side to get to the main terminal.

[@elevatorkid4814]

@@ElevatingDenver I can't because that airport has different floors on arrivals and departures floor C is ticketing and departures and floor G is baggage claims and arrivals there is a bus at that airport which is for arrivals only buses is arrivals only

[@ElevatingDenver]

@@elevatorkid4814 I think you're talking about landside versus airside, right? Yeah Dulles Train is airside, so you have to be going to or from a flight to ride it.

[@ingridb.1209]

That is so cool

[@wilson579]

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[@Strawberrywith2os]

Im going to that airport tomorrow :D I hope i can ride on that thing lol

[@ElevatingDenver]

How much time so you have at the airport? If you have at least an hour you could probably give it a ride.

[@michaelwalterselevatorsrob5009]

Do you happen to have any footage from the Subway? Apparently Disney was involved with that thing

[@ElevatingDenver]

Unfortunately, I don't have any videos of that. Maybe next time I'm at this airport I can record one.

[@marciopereira-xh2vl]

eugostaria de um video deste em portugues

[@lilctv40]

I was on the same one coming from Milwaukee same one going to terminal B.

[@jimmychen3860]

Why is this train not serve marriott?

[@sonicsboy678]

IAH has two train systems. This one only serves the areas inside security. The other one serves areas outside security, including the Marriott.

[@carmenesquivel2701]

@@sonicsboy678 hello- What is the difference between outside and inside security? I have an upcoming flight and I have 1 stop at this airport. I don’t know which train to take. I have to go from terminal B to terminal E to take my other flight.

[@sonicsboy678]

@@carmenesquivel2701 outside security is the ticketing and baggage claim area. You'll be inside security.

[@G_Boom]

They need to build one that goes from the off airport parking & hotels down JFK

[@robertslezak7375]

Yes

[@HUNGD97]

now train airport round.

[@jonathanruehle3501]

I want to go back to Houston airport so badly so I can ride all the escalators and elevators and ride round trips on the trains without being in a rush to get to my next flight I had a layover there last summer and it was suppose to be two hours but we where delayed in Austin and there is not that mush to do at that airport Houston has more escalators elevators and two trains so we had to run to our connecting flight back to Denver so I only could ride the sky train from C to D and E and I was not happy about that but when we got back to Denver I did part of the moving walkways and escalators on Concourse B and 7 round trips on the train

[@hangdang8263]

Train airport round.

[@jocounelis]

I was walking from terminal B to A once. Sorry about it. Love you. 🦶🦶 it's embarrassing ☺️😨

[@navegamez894]

the train is really off from the station

[@Ezzie__]

Ooo I was on this the 10th

[@leeks755]

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[@tashagotit7747]

Where do millionaires go

[@MiguelinaVasquez-i8i]

😂