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McCarran passenger volume drop slows in March

Updated Tuesday, April 21, 2009 | 10:35 a.m.

McCarran International Airport passenger volume continued to decline in March, but the drop was less drastic than in previous months.

Passenger numbers fell for a 13th straight month, dropping 11.8 percent from March 2008. Airport officials said 4,120,581 passengers arrived or departed at McCarran's gates last March, which fell to 3,633,269 last month.

That monthly decline compares to a 15.2 percent drop in February.

February marked a full year of monthly declines in passenger traffic after the Clark County Aviation Department reported a 15.2 percent decrease last month over the previous year. The airport reported 3 million passengers for the month, a decline slightly less than January's 15.7 percent drop, which was the worst falloff since after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Most airlines continued to decline with Southwest Airlines, based in Dallas, off 2.8 percent, compared to a 9.3 percent drop in February, and No. 2 US Airways down 33 percent in March, compared to 34.5 percent in February.

Of the top five airlines serving Las Vegas, American Airlines, based in Fort Worth, Texas, showed the smallest decrease in the number of passengers coming to Las Vegas at 185,876 passengers, a 1.3 percent decrease from March 2008.

Delta declined 10 percent, counting 202,150 passengers compared to 224,617 in March 2008.

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