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Las Vegas Airport is main airport serving Las Vegas, Nevada. It is named after Pat Mc Carran, former senator of Nevada and is located merely 5 miles south from the city centre in the area of Paradise, Clark County.
Las Vegas Airport serves as a hub for US Airways, Allegiant Air and Southwest Airlines. It ranks 15th in passenger traffic worldwide with over 44 million passengers using it in 2008. It ranks 6th in terms of aircraft movements. Major carriers operating from McCarran include US Airways, United, Delta and American Airlines. On 16th October 2003 Las Vegas became the first airport in the world to introduce Speed Check kiosks allowing passengers to get boarding passes for all airlines from a single kiosk. It also introduced Radio Frequency Identification baggage tags and is amongst the first airports to do this.
Free shuttle service is provided from both passenger terminals to car rental facilities located at 7135 Gillespie Street. There are plans to upgrade and modernise Las Vegas airport. As a part of this plan, extension of Las Vegas monorail to McCarran is under consideration.
The airport offers many avenues for passengers to utilise spare time during connecting flights. There is a small museum, the Howard Cannon Aviation Museum which is open 24 hours a day showcasing Las Vegas’s airline history. Other attractions at the airport include murals, rotunda’s terrazzo floor, steel and glass sculptures and wildlife sculptures at the airport’s D gate.