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Hotels Near the Airport McCarran International Airport Las Vegas (IATA: LAS, ICAO: KLAS, FAA LID: LAS) is the principal commercial airport serving Las Vegas and surrounding Clark County, Nevada. The airport is located five miles (8 km) south of the central business district of Las Vegas. Between May 2013 and April 2014, the busiest scheduled airlines flying out of McCarran were Southwest Airlines (44%), Delta Airlines (10%), United Airlines (9%), American Airlines (7%), and Spirit Airlines (6%).
It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) south of downtown Las Vegas, in the unincorporated area of Paradise in Clark County. It covers roughly 2,800 acres (1,100 ha), with four runways and two terminals. McCarran is owned by Clark County and operated by the Clark County Department of Aviation (DOA).n the beginning, Rockwell Field was the airport serving Las Vegas. Western Air Express Airlines brought scheduled flights to the airport in 1926. Rockwell Field closed in 1930 and was replaced by a new airport northwest of town, later named McCarran Airport.