Military personnel at Nellis Air Force Base are breathing easier now that the airline contracted to fly them to new duty stations has revamped its pet transport policy.
Drivers speak out against adding more cars for NASCAR weekend, NCAA March Madness because it would mean decreased profits
Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012
It took a boisterous crowd of more than 300 people, 90 minutes of public comments and two suspensions of a public meeting for cab drivers to make their point before the Nevada Taxicab Authority on Tuesday: that allocating more cabs than necessary for large conventions and special events could hurt the industry.
The Nevada Taxicab Authority briefly suspended its Tuesday meeting twice after dozens of cab drivers shouted down cab company owners requesting additional vehicles for next month's March Madness basketball tournament and NASCAR race.
The best piece of advice financial experts can offer about strategizing for the tax consequences of President Barack Obama’s sweeping new health care legislation is to stay tuned — many of the rules have yet to be written, and some experts speculate that everything could change in the months ahead as opponents attempt to tinker with what’s been approved.
Las Vegas is finally hitting on all cylinders with tourists, conventioneers, international arrivals and special events contributing to a visitor volume projected to crack the 40 million barrier for the first time. Then, just as we thought the sunny skies of a booming economy had arrived, the black cloud of $4-a-gallon gasoline hit the horizon.
It’s an unusual winter morning in the desert surrounding Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California — unusual in that the wind isn’t howling across the dry lake beds, Joshua trees and low-lying scrub.
Domestic passenger counts sputtered in January, but a big bump in international arrivals and Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air’s 10.3 percent increase in passengers for the month kept economic momentum alive at McCarran International Airport.
When three students at the University of Alabama developed their Get Me Home! iPhone app that enables users to call a taxi in one step, they felt it was the socially responsible thing to do. After all, they’d already invented another app that tells users where they could get the highest percentage of alcohol in a drink per dollar.
In a bid to stay ahead of the rapidly increasing pace of technological advancement, the state Gaming Control Board on Wednesday conducted its first public workshop to amend regulations to allow independent laboratories to test new casino games and wagering systems for licensing in the state.
A company that brought the first tire recycling plant to Southern Nevada but wasn’t selected to supply an important paving project on Interstate 15 last year got some consolation Tuesday when the Nevada Commission on Economic Development awarded it more than a quarter-million dollars in tax abatements and deferrals.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air is discontinuing service between Las Vegas and four destinations in April, citing declines in profitability due to higher fuel costs.
One of Spirit Airlines’ top executives made a somewhat cryptic comment to me when he came to Las Vegas recently to talk about his airline’s new crew base that had just opened and the new twice-daily service between McCarran International Airport and Mesa Gateway Airport in suburban Phoenix.
A Chinese energy company has signed an agreement with the state expected to lead to development of a solar-energy generating station and a plant to build solar panels in Southern Nevada.
A consortium of Southern Nevada municipal and county economic development departments and existing business organizations is expected to bid to be designated a regional development authority that would be funded by the state.
Fresh off the establishment of a crew base at McCarran International Airport and reporting a profitable 2011 Miramar, Fla.-based Spirit Airlines has add two new daily non-stop, round-trip flights between Las Vegas and Denver.
Spirit Airlines, the fastest-growing commercial air carrier at McCarran International Airport last year, expanded earnings and had 26.7 percent higher revenue for the fourth quarter to wrap up a profitable year.
The state will spend $2.8 million, most of it for television ads in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Phoenix, to attract tourists to visit Nevada in the spring and summer months.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air has been fined $50,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation for violating its new full-fare advertising rules as well as regulations protecting air travelers with disabilities.
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority approved a contract with LV.com LLC to develop a website to let visitors bundle and purchase tourism products from a single site.
After 22 straight months of increases in visitor volume percentage in Southern Nevada, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is finally seeing the payoff — an $18.8 million increase in its budget.
Maverick Aviation Group, the air tour company that opened a new passenger terminal at Henderson Executive Airport last week, is expanding its helicopter fleet.
The 175 employees working for American Airlines in Las Vegas may know by the end of the month how many of them, if any, will be laid off as part of the company’s bankruptcy restructuring plan.
When the doors open at McCarran International Airport’s $2.4 billion Terminal 3 on June 27, arriving passengers and locals leaving on international and long-haul domestic trips will see a 14-gate, half-mile-long building with plenty of flexibility. There’s still plenty of work to be done. Most of the electronic equipment hasn’t been placed, and contractors have begun work to finish the terminal’s retail areas and food outlets — which will be expanded gradually as terminal traffic grows.
Spirit Airlines officially opened its Las Vegas crew base Tuesday, formally starting the process of making 200 of the company’s pilots, flight attendants and mechanics local residents.
Embedded within last week’s statistical report on the 41.5 million passengers who arrived and departed from McCarran International Airport are dozens of positives, negatives and what-ifs that will define how successful Southern Nevada’s tourism industry is going to be in 2012 and beyond.
In a major step toward establishing the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health as the pre-eminient facility in its field nationally, a Nobel laureate has agreed to chair its scientific advisory committee.
ConExpo-Con/Agg, the massive construction equipment exhibition that has come to Las Vegas in March every three years, will be back in 2014, thanks to a contract extension announced Friday by Phoenix-based Viad Corp.
Executives at Wynn Resorts on Thursday reported earnings higher than analysts expected, announced breaking a four-year-old casino win record and hinted about redesigning the traffic flow at the company’s Encore property.
Las Vegas-based slot machine manufacturer Bally Technologies reported record gaming operations revenue for the fourth straight quarter, propelling the company to earnings that outpaced analysts’ expectations.
Las Vegas-based Allegiant Travel Co., parent company of Allegiant Air, recorded its 36th straight profitable quarter Wednesday, but earnings continued to decline as a result of higher fuel costs.
When it comes to medical tourism, Southern Nevada excels at the “tourism,” but is weak on the “medical” part. That was the conclusion panelists and observers reached at the Southern Nevada Medical Industry Coalition’s inaugural medical tourism symposium Tuesday at Oscar’s at the Plaza Las Vegas.
For 77-year-old Ernie Carey, who won a house in the Station Casinos’ $2 million Great Giveaway Football Contest, it took a little experience and a little luck to come up a winner.
The battle between discount air carrier Spirit Airlines and the U.S. Department of Transportation escalated today with the airline — the fastest growing carrier at McCarran International Airport last year — adding a new $2 fee to ticket prices to cover costs associated with new consumer regulations that took effect last week.
January’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade Show had record attendance of 61,000 people, and the owner of the annual firearms, ammunition, hunting and shooting sports industry event has signed a three-year contract extension to have the show in Las Vegas through 2015. Representatives of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, owner of the SHOT Show, said this year’s event, which ran Jan. 17-20 at the Sands Expo and Convention Center, also had a record 36,383 buyers in attendance and 2,466 registered media.
The National Hockey League has signed a three-year extension with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority to continue bringing its annual postseason awards show to the city.
Once in a while, Chris Meyer sees a few familiar faces from out of town hanging around trade shows at the Las Vegas Convention Center. They’re here to steal his business.
a recent announcement by Southwest Airlines regarding progress in its merger with AirTran gives reason for optimism that Las Vegas not only would get additional seats to the market but a new list of cities with nonstop or direct service by the Dallas-based carrier, the busiest at McCarran.
When McCarran International Airport's $2.4 billion Terminal 3 opens in June, it will have the most advanced security and port-of-entry technology in the country, Department of Homeland Security officials said.
The Nevada Gaming Commission is satisfied that operators of small slot machine arcades are on the right track in their efforts to comply with regulations defining what types of amenities they must have to do business.