Harry Reid International Airport
Las Vegas Valley
- IATALAS
- ICAOKLAS
- FAALAS
- Serves
- Las Vegas Valley
- Operator
- Clark County Department of Aviation
- Owner
- Clark County, Nevada
- Opened
- January 1943
- Elevation
- 2,181 ft (665 m)
- Runways
- 4 (longest 4,522 m)
- Airlines based here
- Not recorded
- Website
- www.harryreidairport.com
About the airport
Harry Reid International Airport (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS), formerly McCarran International Airport until 2021, is an international airport serving Las Vegas as well as the surrounding Las Vegas Valley in Nevada, United States. It is located approximately five miles (8 km; 4 nmi) south of downtown Las Vegas, in the unincorporated area of Paradise, and covers 2,800 acres (4.4 sq mi; 11.3 km2) of land. Clark County owns the facility and its Department of Aviation, under purview of the Clark County Commission oversees airport operations. In December 2021, the Clark County Commission renamed the airport to Harry Reid International Airport in honor of former U.S. Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, citing a desire to reflect community values better and move away from the legacy of its previous namesake. The airport has four runways and two main passenger terminals (Terminal 1 and Terminal 3) with a total of five concourses; the terminal areas are served by an automated people mover system that connects the central terminal with gate concourses. Reid is one of the few U.S. commercial airports with legalized gaming on airport premises; along with Reno–Tahoe International…
This summary is adapted from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Licence. Passenger and runway figures come from the same source and can lag the latest annual totals, so check the figures the operator publishes for the current total.