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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%).
McCarran International Airport - History. 1  Prior to McCarran Airport, the first airport to serve Las Vegas was Anderson Field, opened in November 1920 [5] [6] southeast of present-day Sahara Ave and Paradise Rd.