Passenger counts down 17.9%

Friday, Dec. 28, 2001 | 10:05 a.m.

For the third straight month, passenger traffic on scheduled air service at McCarran International Airport was down by a double-digit percentage.

The airport serving Las Vegas reported 2.55 million passengers in November, down 17.9 percent from the 3.11 million that used the airport in November 2000. All of the top five scheduled carriers had downturns for the month and only four of 19 domestic airlines had improvements over their November 2000 performances.

Tempe, Ariz.-based America West Airlines had a 33.1 percent decrease to 386,803 passengers for the month, while United Airlines' counts were down 29.8 percent to 179,805 in November.

Delta was down 21 percent to 173,751, National was off 19.8 percent to 143,009 and Southwest, the airport's busiest carrier, was down 5.5 percent to 829,268.

The November downturn brings the year-to-date total to 32.7 million, down 3.7 percent from the 33.9 million counted in the first 11 months of 2000.

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