Las Vegas airport
November 4th, 2015 at 6:11:17 AM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
It might be 14, come to think of it, because it would be possible for there not to be a gate 13. Besides, the terminal is divided in two halves.
At T3 there's a big sign saying "To D Gates" right after you pass security. I suppose the reverse sign isn't prominent. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
November 4th, 2015 at 6:41:03 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4966 |
When going from the "D" gates in terminal one, as soon as you get off the tram you make a left before going up the escalator. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
November 4th, 2015 at 6:43:30 AM permalink | |
DRich Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 51 Posts: 4966 |
Correct, no gate 13. At my age a Life In Prison sentence is not much of a detrrent. |
November 4th, 2015 at 11:14:22 AM permalink | |
terapined Member since: Aug 6, 2014 Threads: 73 Posts: 11791 |
LAS is not a hub Closest hubs are LAX PHX Sometimes we live no particular way but our own - Grateful Dead "Eyes of the World" |
November 4th, 2015 at 11:18:44 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
What defines a hub? Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
November 4th, 2015 at 12:01:11 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
The FAA will not define which airlines are hubs and which are not. In fact they use the term Large hub, medium hub, small hub, to classify airports by size. But they don't classify them by ratio of transferring passengers to origin and destination passengers. We all have an intuitive notion of a hub, and clearly some airports are certainly hubs. United defines their Hub Cities Domestic Chicago O’Hare International Airport Denver International Airport Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport Los Angeles International Airport Newark Liberty International Airport San Francisco International Airport Washington Dulles International Airport Guam A. B. Won Pat International Airport International Narita International Airport (Tokyo, Japan) But many airlines prefer to call them "focus cities" in part because it is better publicity. Newark is commonly thought of as a "fortress hub" for United airline, and the term usually brings congressmen armed for action. Southwest doesn't have hubs per se, but a lot more people transfer airplanes in Las Vegas than in San Diego. I think the number is about 20% of the passengers based on some survey information. I saw a ranking of 33,256,610 O&D passengers at Las Vegas area and another for 42,869,517 passengers are the airport which would imply about 9.5 million transfers. But the study did not provide an official percentage so I am leaving 20% as an estimate. It does bring up an interesting question, as the authority that runs Las Vegas airport is only interested in the origin and destination passengers. If there were hard statistics easily available, the authority may want to discourage transfer passengers or prohibit them if possible. The concept would be to preserve the capacity of the airport for the more valuable O&D passenger. |
November 4th, 2015 at 12:03:05 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
Position, frequency and spokes :) Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
November 4th, 2015 at 12:08:13 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
You should know by now that Mike is always looking for precise definitions. |
November 4th, 2015 at 12:35:12 PM permalink | |
Nareed Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 346 Posts: 12545 |
I'm sorry: Location, frequency of departing flights, and number of routes. In the late 80s, amid a fierce fare war and the meteoric rise and fall of low-cost airlines, I recall rather vividly a commentary on NBC News concerning an innovation called the "Wayport." The idea was to build large airports in empty areas away from cities or even towns. People would fly there only to change into another plane that would then fly to where they actually want to go. Example, you fly from JFK to Utopia, Nebraska. From there you take a plane to, say, Seattle. The idea is that many more people wanting to go to Seattle from many more places (NYC, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, etc.) would all congregate at Utopia, Nebraska (fake city name) instead of flying to actual destination hubs, thereby easing traffic. I'm sure you can see the myriad problems. But funny enough that's what UPS and FedEx actually do! Every day lots of cargo planes fly from all over the world to Memphis and Kentucky. Their cargo is unloaded and sorted by region, then the planes are reloaded and leave for their one destination. So if you send something from Utah to Nevada, it first goes to Kentucky and then to Nevada. This works because 1) it's all cargo and 2) there's one flight to/from all destinations. At Toluca and Mex City one often sees a FedEx DC-10 or MD-11, or a UPS 767 waiting all day long for their cargo. Donald Trump is a one-term LOSER |
November 4th, 2015 at 9:51:05 PM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Partly because in the late 80s Southwest Airlines was still making two intermediate stops to fly across the country. It's difficult to believe that Southwest did not fly transcontinental until 9-15-2002 when they began Baltimore-Washington International Airport to Los Angeles International Airport. But the airports in the moderate climate regions where Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas Fort Worth, Houston International, and to some ext Phoenix. These airports get way more traffic than the origin and destination traffic coming into the cities would suggest. Charlotte is ranked #22 Metropolitan Statistical Areas , but the airport is 8th ranked. But costs are low and it functions as an overflow airport. When travel to europe picks up in the summer, there are a lot of connections via Charlotte. |