Cheap Car Hire for Las Vegas Airport
McCarran International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is the
principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada, United
States. The airport is located five miles (8 km) south of the central business
district of Las Vegas, in the unincorporated area of Paradise in Clark County.
It covers an area of 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) and has four runways. McCarran is
owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation
(DOA). It serves as a focus city for Allegiant Air, Southwest Airlines, and US
Airways; McCarran is also the largest operation base for both Allegiant and
Southwest. It is named after the former Nevada Senator Pat McCarran.
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In 2008, McCarran ranked 15th in the world for passenger traffic, with
44,074,707 passengers passing through the terminal. The airport ranked 6th in
the world for aircraft movements with 578,949 takeoffs and landings. McCarran
and the DOA are completely self-sufficient enterprises, requiring no money from
the County's general fund.
The top five largest scheduled airlines at McCarran in number of passengers
carried in 2007 are Southwest Airlines (34.63%), US Airways/ US Airways Express
(21.98%), United Airlines/ United Express (7.16%), Delta Air Lines/ Delta
Connection (5.67%), and American Airlines/ American Eagle (4.84%).
