The annual Thanksgiving retreat — making Sunday one of the year's busiest travel days as people head home — wasn't causing major headaches at McCarran International Airport. McCarran officials expected to see more than 110,000 passengers Sunday.
Count on Southwest Airlines being both juggler and juggernaut in the months ahead. The discount air carrier is by far the busiest airline at McCarran International Airport, with 44.1 percent of each day’s commercial flights.
Crews have finished lane striping and switched traffic onto new four-lane divided highway lanes south of Hoover Dam, the Arizona Department of Transportation said today. The work is part of a $71.3 million project to widen of U.S. 93.
A turkey trying to cross Charleston Boulevard was nearly hit by passing motorists more than once Tuesday. But this wasn’t just any turkey braving traffic. It was a Metro Police officer wearing a turkey costume as part of a crosswalk enforcement campaign.
Despite the struggling economy, 42 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more this long Thanksgiving weekend, an 11.4 percent increase from last year, AAA reports.
The northbound portion of the McCarran International Airport connector tunnel will be opened to its full three lanes next week for the first time in about a year. But travelers will have to watch out for another road closure in the area Sunday night.
Monica Mapile would have turned 19 years old Friday, but instead of getting ready to celebrate, her friends spent the day at church and at a tow-yard news conference to talk about seat belts.
Passenger traffic at McCarran was up 2 percent in October compared to the same month last year, the first such increase in nearly a year. The airport had 3,584,819 passengers arriving and departing in October.
McCarran International Airport will be among a dozen major airports nationwide from which Travelocity.com correspondents will post real-time traffic and crowd congestion information during next week’s busy Thanksgiving travel period.
McCarran International Airport remains a holdout among the nation’s largest airports on a smoking ban, according to the latest survey by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
