Transportation

Nevada changing to new-look, higher-security DMV cards

Nevada driver’s licenses and identification cards are getting a new look and upgraded security features, the state Department of Motor Vehicles said Monday. DMV spokesman Kevin Malone said the ...

12 July 2021
Associated Press

Driverless car service eyes a year-end debut for customers in Las Vegas

An electric Kia Niro travels down a residential street in Las Vegas during a demonstration of the Halo driverless vehicle service, Thursday, July 8, 2021.

Halo — a startup founded by a group of former executives from Uber, Amazon, Cruise Robotics and other companies — started testing a small fleet of electric vehicles in the Las Vegas Valley earlier this year. Before the end of the year, the company plans to have …

9 July 2021
By Bryan Horwath

Canada's Flair Airlines plans flights to Las Vegas in October

Canadians and Americans looking to fly across the border could have one more airline to choose from this fall, if virus-related travel restrictions between the two countries are gone by ...

8 July 2021
Associated Press

Las Vegas airport passenger rebound continues in May

A view of the baggage claim area at Harry Reid International Airport Thursday, May 20, 2021.

Passenger traffic at the Las Vegas airport continued to rise in May, according to a report released today. More than 3.5 million arriving and departing passengers passed through McCarran International Airport last month, about ...

25 June 2021
By Bryan Horwath

Nevada OSHA probing death of worker at Las Vegas airport

A plane taxis after landing at McCarran International Airport.

State safety officials are investigating the death of a worker at McCarran International Airport in what authorities in Las Vegas termed a vehicle accident. The identity of ...

17 June 2021
Associated Press

Computer glitch disrupts Southwest Airlines flights in Las Vegas, nationwide

A Southwest Airlines passenger jet taxis to a gate after landing at McCarran International Airport Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.

A computer network glitch today caused the cancelation of about 500 Southwest Airlines flights, some of them arrivals or departures at the Las Vegas airport, the ...

15 June 2021
By Bryan Horwath

Extended wait times for Uber, Lyft are raising concerns in Las Vegas

Christian Sanchez of Orlando, Fla. waits for a Lyft ride at a rideshare pickup area in the Terminal One parking garage at McCarran International Airport Thursday, May 20, 2021.

Depending on the day, time and location, longer-than-normal wait times for Uber, Lyft and taxi rides in Las Vegas have become common since visitation started to increase ...

23 May 2021
By Bryan Horwath

Americans set another pandemic-era record for air travel

In this Wednesday, March 17, 2021 file photo, travelers walk through the Salt Lake City International Airport in Salt Lake City.

Americans set a record for pandemic-era air travel, then broke it again over the Mother's Day holiday weekend. The Transportation Security Administration said that slightly more than 1.7 million people were screened at airport checkpoints on Sunday, the highest number since March 2020, when travel was collapsing because ...

10 May 2021
Associated Press

Allegiant Travel reports $6.9 million in net income

Allegiant Travel Co. (ALGT) on Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $6.9 million, after reporting a loss in the same period a year earlier. The Las Vegas-based company said it had net income of ...

4 May 2021
Associated Press

Q+A: Chairman of Nevada Taxicab Authority on how COVID impacted the industry

A taxi cab drives down the Strip Thursday, April 28, 2011.

As the coronavirus pandemic gripped Las Vegas last year, nearly every aspect of the travel and tourism industry was impacted, from hotels to casinos, nightclubs and ...

27 April 2021
By Sara MacNeil

Las Vegas airport passenger traffic hits 2.5 million in March

An Allegiant Air passenger jet takes off from McCarran International Airport Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.

The number of passengers arriving or departing the Las Vegas airport in March climbed to about 2.5 million, up from 1.6 million in February, according to the ....

26 April 2021
By Bryan Horwath

Beachgoers take note: Southwest beginning daily service to Santa Barbara

A Southwest Airlines passenger jet takes off from McCarran International Airport June 5, 2017.

With demand rising for flights to leisure destinations, Southwest Airlines is starting daily flights from Las Vegas to Santa Barbara, Calif., where visitors can enjoy ...

7 April 2021
By Bryan Horwath

Airport crowds, airline ticket sales show travel recovering

An American Airlines passenger jet takes off from McCarran International Airport June 5, 2017.

Evidence is mounting that Americans are eager to drive or fly somewhere after being mostly cooped up at home for a year. American Airlines said Monday that bookings are nearly back to pre-pandemic levels as more people get vaccinated, but public health leaders repeated their ...

29 March 2021
By David Koenig and Zeke Miller, Associated Press

Technicality delays renaming of Las Vegas airport after Harry Reid

A view of the Southwest Airlines check-in counter at McCarran International Airport Wednesday, May 20, 2020.

Renaming the Las Vegas airport for former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid hit a minor snag over a flaw in the motion a Clark County commissioner made proposing the change ...

27 March 2021
By Hillary Davis

Las Vegas airport passenger traffic flat in February

A United Airlines passenger jet takes off from McCarran International Airport Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021.

Passenger traffic at McCarran International Airport remained mostly unchanged in February from the previous month, with about 1.6 million travelers arriving and departing. In January, about ...

25 March 2021
By Bryan Horwath
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