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August passenger count falls 9.8 percent at McCarran
Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 | 2:47 p.m.
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The number of airline passengers through McCarran International Airport last month was down 9.8 percent compared to a year earlier.
The Clark County Department of Aviation today reported that 3,495,522 passengers arrived or departed from the airport, which is down from 3,877,059 passengers in August 2008. Last month's number is down from 3,557,509 passengers a month earlier in July.
The number of passengers through McCarran year-to-date is 27,278,666, down from 30,739,817 through the first eight months of 2008. That's a drop of 11.3 percent.
Southwest Airlines, McCarran's busiest air carrier, saw a 2.8 percent drop in passengers from August 2008 to last month. The second busiest carrier, US Airways, dropped 37.3 percent while the third busiest, United, dropped 4.1 percent.
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So it seems like US Airways is still in free fall while the other 2 biggies (Southwest and United) are bottoming out. The news is still lousy, but it could have been worse. I just hope the light at the end of the tunnel isn't an oncoming train, and more of the national economic news gives me reason to keep hoping.
Weren't the numbers last August already in the tank? I think gasoline was about $5.00 a gallon and people were already cutting back?
Could we get a chart superimposing McCarran's monthly passenger counts with Clark County's monthly gaming revenues for the past several years/months?
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i tell you what...tell me when it DOES go up. THAT will be news.
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it'll be down in september and october,too. can you report back to us at the end of the year?