Las Vegas Sun

March 29, 2024

McCarran passenger traffic falls 1.6 percent in May

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The number of passengers traveling in and out of McCarran International Airport dropped 1.6 percent in May compared to the same month last year.

The airport said 3,476,021 people arrived at or departed from McCarran in May, compared to 3,532,182 people in May 2009.

Year to date, there have been 16,213,278 passengers traveling through McCarran, a 3.4 percent drop from the same period last year, which saw 16,787,151 passengers.

McCarran’s busiest carrier, Southwest Airlines, saw a 1.3 percent drop in May, when it carried 1.3 million passengers.

The second busiest carrier, Delta, saw an 11 percent increase in passengers, a result of the airline’s merger with Northwest.

U.S. Airways, once one of the top carriers at the airport, had a 56.2 percent decrease in traffic in May after dropping the number of flights it offers to Las Vegas.

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