Editing Sugar Land, Texas (section)

===Airport===
[[Image:SugarLandAirportSugarLandTX.JPG|thumb|right|[[Sugar Land Regional Airport]]]]
[[Sugar Land Regional Airport]] (formerly Hull Field, later Sugar Land Municipal Airport) was purchased from a private interest in 1990 by the city of Sugar Land. It is the fourth largest airport within the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The airport handles approximately 250 aircraft operations per day. The airport has an on-field United States Customs office, making this airport attractive to energy companies based in the Houston metropolitan area as this allows flights directly to and from countries wherein overseas operations are located, allowing fliers to avoid the delays inherent in high traffic airports such as [[George Bush Intercontinental Airport|George Bush Intercontinental]].

The airport today serves the area's [[general aviation]] (GA) aircraft serving corporate, governmental, and private clientele. A new {{convert|20000|sqft|adj=on}} terminal and a {{convert|60|acre|adj=on}} GA complex opened in 2006. Sugar Land Regional briefly handled commercial passenger service during the mid-1990s via a now-defunct Texas carrier known as [[Conquest Airlines]]. For scheduled commercial service, Sugar Landers rely on Houston's two commercial airports, [[George Bush Intercontinental Airport]] (IAH), {{convert|40|mi}} northeast, and [[William P. Hobby Airport]] (HOU), {{convert|27|mi}} east.

The city of Houston maintains a park that occupies {{convert|750|acre}} of land directly north of the Sugar Land Regional Airport, and developers have built master-planned communities (Telfair, and the future development of TX DOT Tract 3 immediately east of the airport) around the airport, both factors that block airport expansion.

[[China Airlines]] operated private bus shuttle services from Wel-Farm Super Market/Metro Bank on [[Texas State Highway 6|State Highway 6]] in Sugar Land to George Bush Intercontinental Airport to feed the flight from Bush Intercontinental to [[Taipei]], [[Taiwan]].<ref>"[http://www.china-airlines.com/en/promotionen/promotionen000007.htm Houston International Airport Bus Service] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070704062327/http://www.china-airlines.com/en/promotionen/promotionen000007.htm |date=2007-07-04 }}", ''[[China Airlines]]''</ref> The service ended when China Airlines pulled out of Houston on January 29, 2008.<ref name="Curtail">Hensel, Bill, Jr. "[http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2008_4493415 2 foreign airlines curtailing Houston passenger service / High fuel prices hit carriers from Mexico, Taiwan]". ''[[Houston Chronicle]]''. Saturday January 12, 2008. Business 1. Retrieved on June 12, 2009.</ref>