Transportation - VEGAS INC

Blasting to bring closings to Mount Charleston road

Nevada Department of Transportation will restrict access to State Route 158 beginning Wednesday morning to make way for explosions and expansion, an NDOT press release said.

7 August 2012

By Brian Nordli

Allegiant announces new Las Vegas, Hawaii flights

An Allegiant Air jet takes off from McCarran International Airport on Friday, Aug. 26, 2011.

Allegiant Air revealed two more pieces of its Hawaii air service strategy, announcing nonstop flights linking Boise, Idaho, and Spokane, Wash., with Honolulu. The Las Vegas-based discount air carrier also said it also would begin nonstop flights between Boise and Las Vegas twice a week beginning Oct. 26. Allegiant will compete on the route with Southwest Airlines, which has two daily nonstop flights between Boise and Las Vegas.

7 August 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

Consultant, professor look to bring training for high-speed rail to UNLV

Sen. Harry Reid speaks to the media about progress on the DesertXpress high-speed rail project Friday, March 25, 2011, at the UNLV Science and Engineering building. With him, from left, is Nevada Department of Transportation Director Susan Martinovich, U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood and UNLV President Neal Smatresk.

A transportation expert and a UNLV professor want to leverage Las Vegas’ potential as a high-speed rail transportation hub to develop a university program dedicated to the research and study of high-speed rail. Tom Skancke, a public affairs consultant and president and CEO of the Skancke Company, and Harry Teng, an associate professor at UNLV’s Howard Hughes College of Engineering, plan to take their proposal — which they have been refining for almost two years — to university administrators early next year. They hope to affiliate what they tentatively are calling the International High Speed Rail Institute with UNLV’s engineering ...

6 August 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

Allegiant earnings soar, while Hawaii service off to strong start

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent company of Allegiant Air, doubled earnings over last year’s second quarter thanks to a combination of higher ancillary revenue, reduced operational costs and a decline in the price of fuel.

1 August 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

Do the McCarran shuffle: 5 airlines move to new terminal

A Copa Airlines passenger jet from Panama City, Panama receives a water cannon welcome as it arrives on it's inaugural flight to Las Vegas at the new Terminal 3 at McCarran International Airport Wednesday, June 27, 2012. The Copa Airlines service is the first direct flight from Central or South America to Las Vegas, said airport spokesman Chris Jones.

Let the confusion begin at McCarran International Airport. One month after opening the airport’s new Terminal 3, the second round of airline move-ins begins Tuesday — a shuffle that will reduce airport congestion but is bound to confuse passengers who have always gone to Terminal 1. Five airlines — Alaska, Frontier, JetBlue, Sun Country and Virgin America — are moving their ticket counters, check-in and baggage claim facilities to the new $2.4 billion terminal building east of the main concourse.

30 July 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air acquiring more jets

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will introduce a new aircraft type to its fleet next year, company officials announced. Allegiant will lease nine twin-engine Airbus A319 jets and buy 10 more.

30 July 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas-California $5.5 billion train loan gets endorsement

The Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority is endorsing XPressWest’s $5.5 billion loan application to build a high-speed train between Las Vegas and Victorville, Calif., a key piece in the bid to link Southern Nevada with Los Angeles.

27 July 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

Las Vegas highway strewn with paper after box falls from truck

Papers litters Interstate 15 between Sahara Avenue and Charleston Boulevard after a box fell from a truck and was hit by a bus Tuesday, July 24, 2012.

Motorists driving on Interstate 15 Tuesday afternoon ran into a storm of blowing paper that slowed traffic near Sahara Avenue, just west of the Las Vegas Strip.

24 July 2012

By Cristina Chang

Court: Vision Airlines crew can seek punitive damages in hazard-pay dispute

A North Las Vegas charter airline must face trial on punitive damage claims that it failed to pay its pilots and crew extra “hazard pay” for flying into Iraq and Afghanistan on government missions during the wars there, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.

19 July 2012

By Dave Toplikar

Blueprint calls for more carpool lanes, but money remains tight

By the year 2030, Nevada Department of Transportation project manager John Terry envisions future highways filled not with flying cars, but express car pool lanes.

18 July 2012

By Brian Nordli

Summerlin HOV construction to cause lane, ramp closures

The Nevada Department of Transportation is notifying drivers of lane and ramp closures occurring this week while construction crews build the Summerlin High Occupancy Vehicle flyover connector near U.S. 95 and Summerlin Parkway.

16 July 2012

By Paul Takahashi

Final approval of RTC labor contract is delayed

A five-year labor contract widely praised by the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada and its union employees didn’t win final approval as expected Thursday so that commissioners and the agency could explain some of the details of the deal to the public.

12 July 2012

By Richard N. Velotta

RTC's proposed union contract raises critics' eyebrows

A five-year proposed contract with union employees of the Regional Transportation Commission has onlookers scratching their heads. Under proposed terms, RTC union employees will maintain merit and cost-of-living pay as well as longevity pay.

12 July 2012

By Joe Schoenmann

Merger Dance: Rating American Airlines' options

An American Airlines jet waits to taxi as a Southwest Airlines jet takes off from McCarran International Airport in this 2009 file photo.

American Airlines is weighing various options for its future, but most analysts say the nation's No. 3 airline only has one viable choice: combine with No. 5 US Airways.

11 July 2012

By Scott Mayerowitz, Associated Press

Sludge spill closes one-block portion of Nellis Boulevard

Motorists traveling along Nellis Boulevard in the northern valley may have to find a new route after a sludge spill occurred around 9 a.m. today.