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Old 03-24-2008, 12:42 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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Wow! Two hours in advance just for domestic flights? I thought the need to do that ended a few years ago.
Is it always that busy at LAS, or just certain times of the year?
40 million people a year fly in and out of McCarran. It is the fifth or sixth, I believe, busiest airport in the nation. It's busy all the time...extremely busy around major holidays.
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Old 03-24-2008, 12:47 AM
 
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40 million people a year fly in and out of McCarran. It is the fifth or sixth, I believe, busiest airport in the nation. It's busy all the time...extremely busy around major holidays.
#6, 2007: FAA - Top 50 Busiest U.S. Airports for 2007 – All Airports (http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/busiest_airports/ - broken link)
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Old 03-24-2008, 12:47 AM
 
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Seconded. I don't travel a lot, but I've been there a few times and I'm just starting to get the hang of it. I don't know why they made it so difficult... I haven't been to a lot of airports, but LAS is the most confusing of the half dozen or so that I've had to navigate.
I don't find McCarran all that difficult. Of course I've been using it since the days we could drive up in front, park for free, and walk in the front door a few steps away. I find all airports a little confusing if I'm not used to them. LAX is the worst. Don't know how many laps in my car I've had to do there just to find the right parking lot for the right terminal.
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Old 03-24-2008, 12:51 AM
 
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I don't find McCarran all that difficult. Of course I've been using it since the days we could drive up in front, park for free, and walk in the front door a few steps away. I find all airports a little confusing if I'm not used to them. LAX is the worst. Don't know how many laps in my car I've had to do there just to find the right parking lot for the right terminal.
I agree, LAS is a piece of cake to navigate.
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Old 03-24-2008, 12:57 AM
 
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
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#6, 2007: FAA - Top 50 Busiest U.S. Airports for 2007 – All Airports (http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/busiest_airports/ - broken link)
Thanks Sheriff. A little story if I may. Back in 1964, I had been here about three months and was driving by McCarran one night with a friend in, believe it or not, a major snow storm. I recall that he mentioned it was the busiest airport of it's size in the country at the time (a designation it had for many years until the one it has now). I made some remark about how I was surprised that they never had any accidents there with all those incoming flights. A couple of hours later we saw on the news that a Western Airlines plane had crashed in the blizzard on top of Mt. Potosi, just to the southwest of town. Everyone on board was killed of course, and as far as I know the wreckage (but not the bodies) is still up there. I saw it a few years later while involved in some monkey business on Mt. Potosi.
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Old 03-24-2008, 12:59 AM
 
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#6, 2007: FAA - Top 50 Busiest U.S. Airports for 2007 – All Airports (http://www.faa.gov/news/updates/busiest_airports/ - broken link)
Phoenix number eight? That's surprising.
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Old 03-24-2008, 01:32 AM
 
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This lists Bonanza as the airline---killed 29. Bonanza Airlines Historical site
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Old 03-24-2008, 09:48 AM
 
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Admittedly, I'm very sharp with directions, and did manage to get a bit veered off path at the C terminal, when looking for the tram. The B/D gates are far more intuitive.
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Old 03-24-2008, 01:34 PM
 
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This lists Bonanza as the airline---killed 29. Bonanza Airlines Historical site
You're right, it was Bonanza. One of the reporters that I worked with that covered the story went to work for Western AL, so that's what I was thinking about.

But it was actually south or southwest of LV on Mt. Potosi just north of the peak as I recall seeing the wreckage. They say north of LV in one place and south in the other. I know...picky, picky, picky. Wouldn't want people crawling around on Sheep Mountain looking for a plane crash...except isn't that where Carole Lombard crashed?

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Old 03-24-2008, 01:37 PM
 
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Admittedly, I'm very sharp with directions, and did manage to get a bit veered off path at the C terminal, when looking for the tram. The B/D gates are far more intuitive.
The A & B gates are straight ahead through the terminal and have always been there. The C & D gates are add ons and each have their own trams.
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