McCarran International Airport
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| McCarran International
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| IATA: LAS - ICAO: KLAS | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type
| Public | ||
| Operator
| Clark County, Nevada | ||
| Serves
| Las Vegas, Nevada | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 2,181 ft (664.8 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website
| www.mccarran.com | ||
| Parts of this article may come from Wikipedia | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 1L/19R | 8,985 | 2,739 | Concrete |
| 1R/19L | 9,775 | 2,979 | Asphalt |
| 7L/25R | 14,510 | 4,423 | Asphalt |
| 7R/25L | 10,526 | 3,208 | Asphalt |
Contents |
General
McCarran International Airport is the principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, Nevada. The airport is located five miles south of the central business district of Las Vegas, in the unincorporated town of Paradise. It covers an area of 2,800 acres and has four runways. McCarran is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation (DOA). It serves as a hub for US Airways, and a focus city for AirTran Airways, Allegiant Air, and Southwest Airlines; McCarran is also the largest operation base for both Allegiant and Southwest.
In 2006, McCarran ranked eleventh in the world and sixth in the United States for passenger traffic, with 46,194,882 passengers passing through the terminal. The airport ranked fifth in the world and United States for aircraft movements (up from seventh in 2005), with 605,046 takeoffs and landings.
McCarran and the DOA are completely self-sufficient enterprises, requiring no money from the County's general fund.
As of September 2007, Southwest Airlines operated more flights out of McCarran than at any other airport. Southwest also carries the most passengers in and out of McCarran. Southwest currently operates out of 21 gates, primarily in Concourse C, at McCarran. The US Airways night-flight hub operation, established in 1986 by predecessor America West Airlines, makes the carrier McCarran's second busiest airline.
McCarran Airport is somewhat unusual in that it has more than 1,300 slot machines throughout the airport terminals. Reno/Tahoe International Airport also has gambling machines both airside and landside.
Maximum capacity for the airport is estimated at 53 million passengers and 625,000 aircraft movements. As McCarran is predicted to reach this capacity around 2017, Ivanpah Airport is planned as a relief airport.
Gate Assignments
MetroAir operates out of the D Concourse at KLAS. All aircraft utilize gate G2. (FS9 Gate G29)
Flight Planning Resources
- Aiport Diagram
- Terminal Procedures - contains SID, STAR and IAP
IFR Routes
Pilots should add their IFR route plans originating from KLAS here as a central repository for their fellow pilots.
| Destination | Route | Suggested Altitude | Charts | Preferred | Comments |
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| KDTW | COWBY2 GUP J8 IFI TUL J78 PXV VHP FWA MIZAR3 | Range: FL190-410 (odd) | KLAS KDTW | 
| RNAV required
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| KDTW | LAS3 DVC PUB SLN J24 MCI J80 VHP FWA MIZAR3 | Range: FL190-410 (odd) | KLAS KDTW |
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| KDTW | TRALR2 DVC J146 LNK DSM J144 DBQ BAE POLAR2 | Range: FL190-410 (odd) | KLAS KDTW | 
| RNAV required
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| KONT | BOACH2 HEC ZIGGY4 | FL280 Range: FL180-400 (even) | KLAS KONT |
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| KONT | MCCRN3 HEC ZIGGY4 HEC ZIGGY4 | FL280 Range: FL180-400 (even) | KLAS KONT |
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Available Sceneries
| FS version | pay-/freeware | developer | available updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| FS9 | payware | SimFlyers - Las Vegas McCarran Intl (KLAS) | none |
| FS9 | freeware | AVSIM - Mach-1 Design Group - McCarran International Airport - Las Vegas - march 2008 | none |
| FS9 | freeware | Bluesky Scenery - Arrivals Terminal F - Las Vegas - december 2007 | none |
| FS9 | freeware | AVSIM - Jose Gutierrez - KLAS Las Vegas McCarran Int'l Update v.2.1 - february 2007 | none |
| FS9 | freeware | Hypnostudios - Project Las Vegas - 2007 | none |
| FSX | freeware | AVSIM - Steve Lewis - KLAS Las Vegas McCarran International Airport - february 2008 | none |
