War, SARS reduce air traffic

Thursday, April 10, 2003 | 9:51 a.m.

Jitters over the Iraqi war and the deadly severe acute respiratory syndrome disease is continuing to hurt the nation's airlines, but Las Vegas is continuing to hold its own, statistics from McCarran International Airport say.

The Washington-based Air Transport Association said Wednesday that for the week ended April 6, systemwide traffic on the nation's airlines was down 17.4 percent compared with the same period a year ago. By contrast, traffic at McCarran was down 2 percent from the previous year.

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