McCarran International Airport

McCarran International Airport {{Airport codes|LAS|KLAS}} is the principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, Nevada. It is located outside the City of Las Vegas in the unincorporated Paradise CDP. McCarran is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation. Its location, about eight miles south of downtown Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip, provides convenient access to most hotels in the Las Vegas Valley.

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Las Vegas - Clark County, Nevada - Paradise - CDP - Las Vegas Strip

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In 2004 McCarran was one of the world's busiest airports, ranking eleventh for passenger traffic, with 41,436,571 passengers passing through the terminal, and seventh for aircraft movements, with 544,679 takeoffs and landings.

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2004 - Busiest airports - Passenger traffic - Aircraft movements

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As of December 2004, Southwest Airlines operated more flights out of McCarran than at any other airport. Southwest also carries the most passengers in and out of McCarran. America West Airlines is McCarran's second busiest airline. Other airlines that run hubs at McCarran include Allegiant Air.

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Southwest Airlines - America West Airlines - Allegiant Air

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McCarran Airport is unique in that it has more than 1,300 slot machines throughout the airport terminals.

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Maximum capacity for the airport is estimated at 53 million passengers and 625,000 aircraft movements. As McCarran is predicted to reach this capacity around 2017, Ivanpah Airport is planned as a relief airport.

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