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Travel boom drives 8.1% increase in LV air traffic

Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2000 | 11:12 a.m.

McCarran International Airport said it served 3.2 million passengers in August, an 8.1 percent increase from August 1999 as the opening of new resorts on the Las Vegas Strip continued to drive a travel boom to the gaming capital.

Southwest Airlines, the No. 1 carrier in Las Vegas, posted a 5.8 percent increase in August traffic to 980,000 people. No. 2 carrier America West was up 15.7 percent to 548,000 passengers. United fell 9.7 percent to 262,000, Delta was up 5.3 percent to 244,000 while Las Vegas-based National jumped 158 percent to 199,000.

Year to date, McCarran traffic is up 9.9 percent.

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