LAS August traffic drops

Passenger traffic at McCarran Airport (LAS) shows declines across the board; down 9.8 percent year-over-year for the month of August, the Las Vegas Sun reports today.

Sun:

The Clark County Department of Aviation today reported that 3,495,522 passengers arrived or departed from the airport, which is down from 3,877,059 passengers in August 2008. Last month's number is down from 3,557,509 passengers a month earlier in July.

The number of passengers through McCarran year-to-date is 27,278,666, down from 30,739,817 through the first eight months of 2008. That's a drop of 11.3 percent.
Southwest Airlines, McCarran's busiest air carrier, saw a 2.8 percent drop in passengers from August 2008 to last month. The second busiest carrier, US Airways, dropped 37.3 percent while the third busiest, United, dropped 4.1 percent.

US Airways down 37.3 percent...ouch!

E.C. :)