Transportation

How can Allegiant Air justify charging so many fees? Here's what the company says

How can Allegiant Air justify charging so many fees? Here's what the company says

It didn’t take long for public outrage to blow up when news of Allegiant Air’s policy to charge passengers $35 per flight segment for carry-on luggage hit the street.

10 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Cabby turnout at meeting may have influenced denial of more taxis for big event

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

When the National Association of Broadcasters brings its annual convention to Las Vegas next week, there won’t be any additional taxicabs to accommodate the more than 100,000 conventioneers expected to be in town.

9 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Snake on a plane: Pilot makes emergency landing after reptile slithers into cockpit

An Australian pilot said he was forced to make a harrowing landing reminiscent of a Hollywood thriller after a snake popped out from behind his dashboard and slithered across his leg during a solo cargo flight.

5 April 2012
By Rod McGuirk, Associated Press

Tornadoes in Dallas disrupt air traffic to Las Vegas

Cloud rotation moves over I-20 after a tornado reportedly tore through the southeastern portion of Dallas County Tuesday, April 3, 2012 near Lancaster, Pa. The National Weather Service confirmed at least two separate "large and extremely dangerous" tornadoes in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Several other developing twisters were reported as a band of violent storms moved north through the metropolitan area. Officials had no immediate information about injuries.

Several flights to Las Vegas from Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and Love Field were canceled or postponed Tuesday after tornadoes ripped through North Texas.

4 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

State settles $13.5 million lawsuit with freeway developer

The freeway that runs through part of Carson City started out as a $69 million project but is costing motorists $94.4 million.

3 April 2012
By Cy Ryan

Western Cab drivers join United Steelworkers Union

Drivers at Western Cab Co. have become the seventh Southern Nevada taxi company employee group to join the United Steelworkers Union.

3 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Allegiant adding carry-on fee of $35 per flight segment

Allegiant adding carry-on fee of $35 per flight segment

Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air will impose a $35 fee per flight segment on passengers taking carry-on luggage stowed in overhead bins beginning with Wednesday bookings, the airline confirmed Monday.

2 April 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Prosecutors want JetBlue captain held without bond

A JetBlue Airways captain charged with disrupting a Las Vegas-bound flight after he left the cockpit screaming about religion and terrorists should remain in federal custody without bond, prosecutors told a judge Monday.

2 April 2012
Associated Press

Passenger count soars at McCarran during February

A Southwest jet takes off as Mexican airline Volaris makes its arrival at McCarran International Airport on March 30, 2011.

Strong international air traffic and the benefit of an extra day in the month pushed McCarran International Airport’s passenger totals to the highest percentage increase in five months as 3.1 million people passed through the airport’s gates in February.

29 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Vegas cab alternative runs into regulations stifling competition

A Bell Trans limousine heads to a passenger area at McCarran International Airport.

A San Francisco company that’s given the limo business a digital-age makeover wants to do business in Las Vegas but has run headlong into regulations that shield cab companies from competition.

28 March 2012

Hoover Dam bypass bridge wins engineering award

Tourists take photos of the recently opened Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge Wednesday, October 20, 2010.

The $240 million bridge spanning the Hoover Dam has garnered one of the nation's top civil engineering awards. Officials say Monday that the Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge won the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award last week from the American Society of Civil Engineers. The 1,900-foot-long bridge built by the Federal Highway Administration is part of a four-lane bypass that reroutes traffic around the dam. Construction began in 2005, and the bridge officially opened in 2010.

26 March 2012
Associated Press

Dear DesertXpress developers: Has your project gone off the tracks?

It’s been more than a year since the Sun broke the story that developers of the DesertXpress high-speed rail proposal between Las Vegas and Victorville, Calif., would seek a $5 billion federal loan.

26 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

California start-up airline to offer flights to Las Vegas

California Pacific Airlines, in the final stages of certification, would offer flights to Las Vegas.

A start-up airline to be based in northern San Diego County has identified McCarran International Airport as one of its initial destinations.

23 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

McCarran spokesman: Obama visit to cause 'minimal' disruption

Air traffic and ground transportation at McCarran International Airport will be disrupted briefly Wednesday when Air Force One arrives and departs for President Obama’s short visit to Boulder City to tour a solar energy plant.

21 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta

Report says Nevada airports soar in spurring economy of state, communities

Nevada airports are better economic drivers than those in nearly every other state in the country, a report prepared for Airports Council International-North America says.

19 March 2012
By Richard N. Velotta
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