Las Vegas airport logs another 4-million-passenger month

For a sixth consecutive month, McCarran International Airport logged more than 4 million airline passengers in August, the Clark County Aviation Department reported Wednesday.

More than 4.24 million airline passengers arrived or departed from the nation’s eighth-busiest airport last month, a 3.6 percent jump from the same period in 2016, airport spokeswoman Christine Crews said.

County aviation director Rosemary Vassiliadis said this year that she believes McCarran International is on track to break the airport’s annual record of 47.8 million airline passengers, set in 2007.

More than 3.8 million travelers boarded or arrived on domestic flights last month, a 4 percent increase from a year earlier. International flights arriving or departing McCarran carried 322,338 travelers, a relatively flat 0.3 percent decrease from August 2016.

Year-to-date, 32.34 million passengers flew in or out of the Las Vegas airport, a 2.6 percent increase from the same period last year.

Air Canada had a 4.2 percent decrease in traffic with 72,412 passengers last month, while Canadian carrier WestJet was up 3.5 percent with 80,978 passengers.

Virgin Atlantic Airways reported a 8.4 percent drop in traffic with 28,055 passengers. British Airways carried 28,968 passengers in August, a 4.5 percent decrease from last year, while British competitor Thomas Cook Airlines was up 101.3 percent with 16,402 passengers.

Korean Air was up 17.2 percent with 10,123 passengers. Chinese budget carrier Hainan, which launched service in December, reported 4,454 passengers.

Mexican carrier Interjet reported an 87.9 percent jump to 15,613 passengers in August, while Aeromexico had a 37.8 percent decline to 17,581 passengers. Volaris reported a 42.9 percent drop in August to 12,678 passengers compared with the same period a year earlier.

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