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Time Zone: PDT (GMT -7)
Airport Code: LAS
Tel: +1 702 261-5211
Flight Information: +1 702 261-4636
Distance from city: 9 miles (14km)

Airport Address: PO Box 11005, Las Vegas, Nevada 89111-1005, USA

General Enquiries: (702) 261 5211

Lost & Found: (702) 261 5134

Left Luggage Facilities: Available

Terminals

Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS) features two terminal buildings, complete with 85 boarding gates, out of which, three are for international flights. Dining, shopping, leisure, medical and lounging facilities are available in both terminals. Several ticketing counters and tourist information centers are also located throughout the terminals of Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS).

Airlines

Airlines Terminal
AeroMexico AM 800 237-6639 2
Air Canada AC 888 247-2262 2
AirTran Airways FL 800 247-8726 1
Alaska Airlines AS 800 426-0333 1
Allegiant Air G4 702 505Ð8888 1
American Airlines AA 800 433-7300 1
Aviacsa 6A 888 528-4227 2
Continental Airlines CO 800 525-0280 1
Delta Air Lines DL 800 221-1212 1
Frontier Airlines F9 800 432-1359 1
Hawaiian Airlines HA 800 367-5320 2
JetBlue B6 800 538-2583 1
Korean Air KE 800 438-5000 2
Mexicana MX 800 531-7921 2
Midwest Airlines YX 800 452-2022 1
Omni Air Int'l X9 877 718-8901 2
Philippine Airlines PR 800 435-9725 2
Southwest Airlines WN 800 435-9792 1
Spirit Airlines NK 800 772-7117 1
Sun Country Airlines SY 800 359-6786 1
United Airlines UA 800 864-8331 1
US Airways US 800 428-4322 1
Virgin America VX 877 359-8474 1
Virgin Atlantic VS 800 862-8621 2
WestJet WS 888 937-8538 1

Shopping

Duty Free

Duty free shopping is available at Liberty Duty Free, located on terminal two and Tax Free Duty Free of terminal one at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS).

Gift Shops

Bellagio Hotel Gift Shop, Circus Hotel Gift Shop, Excalibur Hotel Gift Shop, Luxor Hotel Gift Shop, Mandalay Bay Hotel Gift Shop, News and Gifts, Simply Unique Gifts and WH Smith News and Gifts are some of the gift shops located onsite at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS).

Restaurants and Bars

Both terminal one and terminal two offer a variety of excellent restaurants, diners, snack bars, coffee shops and food outlets for travelers to acquire food and refreshments at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS).

Business Services

Internet Access

Internet kiosks are located near the C and D gates of terminal one.

Post

Level two of terminal one features a full service post office.

Currency Exchange and ATMs

Foreign Exchange Desks

Travelex services provides foreign currency exchange at Terminal 2 of Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS) for international passengers arriving in the federal inspection services greeter lobby and at the security checkpoints for departing passengers.

Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs)

A range of financial services are offered for travelers by the full service bank located on level two of A and B security checkpoints. ATMs are located throughout the terminal area.

Airline Lounges

Airline Club facilities are available in terminal one for passengers of America West Airlines. A VIP Room is also located in terminal two for passenger use as determined by the airlines.

Tourist Information

Information booths are located on terminal one, offering airline details, ground transportation information, hotel check-in details and other information.

Medical Facilities

The First Aid Station provides immunizations, vaccines, blood pressure checks, minor first aid, and other related medical services. It's located on terminal one.

Disabled Facilities

Telephones for the hearing impaired are located in terminal one, gates A, B, D and baggage claim area. Visual paging is available through any of the white courtesy telephones located in terminal one A, B, C, D gates, baggage claim area, emergency services area and terminal two. Wheelchairs are provided free of charge upon request and unisex companion care restrooms are available throughout the terminals.

Car Rental

Rental car counters at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS) are located in the center of the baggage claim area. Courtesy telephones could be used to reserve other offsite rental car services at the traveler's discretion. Rental cars are parked outside the terminal area and each car rental agency provides their own airport complimentary shuttle service between their parked car lots. Rental car agencies available onsite at Las Vegas McCarran International Airport include Avis, Budget, Dollar, Enterprise, Hertz, National, Payless, Sav-mor and Thrifty.

Established in 1905, Las Vegas officially became a city in 1911. With the growth that followed, at the close of the century Las Vegas was the most populous American city founded in the 20th century (a distinction held by Chicago in the 19th century). The city's tolerance for various forms of adult entertainment earned it the title of Sin City, and this image has made Las Vegas a popular setting for films and television programs. Outdoor lighting displays are everywhere on the Las Vegas Strip and are seen elsewhere in the city as well. As seen from space, the Las Vegas metropolitan area is the brightest on Earth.

The name Las Vegas is often applied to unincorporated areas that surround the city, especially the resort areas on and near the Las Vegas Strip. This 4 mile (6.5-km) stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard is partly in the Las Vegas city limits, but mainly in the unincorporated communities of Paradise and Winchester, and continues partly into unincorporated Enterprise.

Las Vegas is situated on the arid desert floor within Clark County. Correspondingly, the surrounding environment is dominated by desert vegetation and some wildlife, and the area can be subject to torrential flash floods. Enabling the rapid population expansion was a major addition to the city's sewage treatment capacity. The sewage treatment expansion resulted from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant funded 2008 programs to analyze and forecast growth and environmental impacts through the year 2019.

The city is in an arid basin surrounded by dry mountains. City elevation is around 2030 feet (620 m) above sea level. The Spring Mountains lie to the west. As befits a desert, much of the landscape is rocky and dusty. Within the city, however, there are a great deal of lawns, trees, and other greenery. Due to water resource issues, there is now a movement to encourage xeriscapes instead of lawns. Another part of the water conservation efforts include scheduled watering groups for watering residential landscaping. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 131.3 square miles (340.0 km2), of which 131.2 square miles (339.8 km2) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (0.04%) is water.

Las Vegas' climate is an arid desert climate (Koppen climate classification BWh), typical of the Mojave Desert in which it lies. The city enjoys abundant sunshine year-round and has about an average of 300 sunshine days a year, with very little rainfall.

The summer months of June through September are very hot and mostly dry with average daytime highs of 94–104 °F and nighttime lows of 69–78 °F ; and most days in July and August exceed 100°Fs (38°Cs) but with very low humidity, frequently under 10%.

Las Vegas' winters are of short duration and the season is generally mild, with daytime highs near 60 degrees and nighttime lows around 40 degrees. The mountains surrounding Las Vegas accumulate snow during the winter but snow is rare in the Las Vegas Valley itself.[12] Several years apart, however, snow has fallen in the valley. Temperatures can sometimes drop to freezing (32 °F/0 °C) but winter nighttime temperatures will rarely dip below 30 degrees.

Annual precipitation in Las Vegas is around 4.5 inches (114 mm), which mainly occurs during winter but is not uncommon anytime of the year.

General Information

McCarran International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is the principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and Clark County, Nevada, United States. The airport is located five miles (8 km) south of the central business district of Las Vegas, in the unincorporated area of Paradise in Clark County. It covers an area of 2,800 acres (1,100 ha) and has four runways. McCarran is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation (DOA). It serves as a focus city for Allegiant Air, Southwest Airlines, and US Airways; McCarran is also the largest operation base for both Allegiant and Southwest. It is named after the former Nevada Senator Pat McCarran.

In 2008, McCarran ranked 15th in the world for passenger traffic, with 44,074,707 passengers passing through the terminal. The airport ranked 6th in the world for aircraft movements with 578,949 takeoffs and landings. McCarran and the DOA are completely self-sufficient enterprises, requiring no money from the County's general fund.

As of September 2008, Southwest Airlines operated more flights out of McCarran than at any other airport. Southwest also carries the most passengers in and out of McCarran. Southwest currently operates out of 21 gates, primarily in Concourse C. The US Airways night-flight hub operation, established in 1986 by predecessor America West Airlines, makes the carrier McCarran's second busiest airline. Due to the 2008 energy crisis the night hub was closed in September 2008. US Airways will also cut another seven flights by the end of the year, resulting in a drastic decrease of the airline's operations at McCarran.

The top five largest scheduled airlines at McCarran in number of passengers carried in 2007 are Southwest Airlines (34.63%), US Airways/ US Airways Express (21.98%), United Airlines/ United Express (7.16%), Delta Air Lines/ Delta Connection (5.67%), and American Airlines/ American Eagle (4.84%).

McCarran Airport has more than 1,300 slot machines throughout the airport terminals. The slots are owned and operated by Michael Gaughan Airport Slots. Reno/Tahoe International Airport also has gambling machines both airside and landside.

Maximum capacity for the airport is estimated at 53 million passengers and 625,000 aircraft movements. As McCarran is predicted to reach this capacity around 2017, Ivanpah Airport is planned as a relief airport.

American aviator George Crockett, a descendant of frontiersman Davy Crockett, established Alamo Airport in 1942 on the site currently occupied by McCarran International. In 1948, Clark County purchased the airfield from Crockett to establish the Clark County Public Airport, and all commercial operations moved to the site of this airport. On December 20, 1948 the airport was renamed McCarran Field for U.S. Senator Pat McCarran, a longtime Nevada politician who authored the Civil Aeronautics Act and played a major role in developing aviation nationwide.

By this time, the airport was serving 1.5 million passengers a year, the location for the present terminals was moved from Las Vegas Boulevard South to Paradise Road, opening in March 1963. The terminal, designed by Welton Becket and Associates and John Replogle, was inspired by the TWA terminal at JFK. It ultimately became the basis for the United Airlines terminal at O'Hare International Airport seven years later.

In 1978, Senator Howard Cannon pushed the Airline Deregulation Act through Congress. Airlines no longer had to get the federal government's permission to fly to a city, but instead dealt directly with airports to establish additional routes. Just after deregulation, the number of airlines serving McCarran doubled from seven to 14.

An expansion plan called McCarran 2000 was adopted in 1978 and funded by a $300 million bond issue in 1982. The three-phase plan included a new central terminal; a nine-level parking facility; runway additions and expansions; additional gates; upgraded passenger assistance facilities; and a new tunnel and revamped roadways into the airport. The first phase of McCarran 2000 opened in 1985 and was completed by 1987.

Between 1986 and 1997, Terminal 2 was built where two separate terminals had been in the 1970s and 1980s; one for American Airlines and the other for Pacific Southwest Airlines.

In the 1990s all gates and check in counters were upgraded to use a common set of computer hardware. CUTE, Common Use Terminal Equipment. This eliminates the need for each airline to have their own equipment and allows the airport to reassign gates and counters without having to address individual airlines' computer systems. While portions of Los Angeles International Airport and San Francisco International Airport deployed CUTE prior to McCarran, as of 2008 it remains the only major airport in the USA that is 100 percent common use. (White Plains, N.Y., is also a 100 percent common use airport, though it has only eight gates.) McCarran's CUTE system also supports several airlines' use of the Cockpit Access Security System, or CASS. In Europe, and to some extent the Asia-Pacific rim, CUTE has been widely prevalent for much longer.

In 1998 the D Gates SE and SW wings opened adding 28 gates. The D Gates project is a modification to the original McCarran 2000 plan.

On October 16, 2003, the airport installed SpeedCheck kiosks which allow customers to obtain a boarding pass without having to go to a specific airline kiosk or counter. McCarran was the first airport in the US to provide this service and the first in the world to provide the service to all airlines from a single kiosk. At the same time, 6 kiosks were activated at the Las Vegas Convention Center allowing convention attendees to get boarding passes on their way to the airport. This system was enhanced to add printing of baggage tags in 2005.

In 2003 the airport announced it was implementing a baggage-tracking system that will use Radio-frequency identification (RFID) bag tags from Matrics Inc. to improve air safety. The decision to implement the tracking system makes McCarran one of the first airports to use the RFID technology airportwide.

On January 4, 2005, the airport started offering wireless internet service at no charge. The signal is available in the boarding areas and most other public areas. The airport was the first to provide this as a free service for the entire facility. At the time, this was the largest (2 million square feet (180,000 m²)) free wireless Internet installation in the world.

In 2005, the D Gates NE wing opened adding 10 gates.

On April 4, 2007, the Consolidated Rent-a-Car facility, located 3 miles (5 km) from the terminals, opened with 5,000 parking spaces on 68 acres (280,000 m2) of land. A fleet of 40 buses provides transportation from the terminals to the facility which houses 11 car rental companies. Advantage, Savmore, Payless, and Enterprise will use a new access control system. This system will be based on bar codes.

Due to Continental Airlines moving into the Star Alliance, along with cost-cutting moves at US Airways because of the 2008 night-flight hub closure, the US Airways Club will permanently close on September 13, 2009. All passengers flying on US Airways or United Airlines can access the Presidents Club in Concourse D starting on October 25.