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The Business of IT
F E A T U R E  
Air Power

  April 17, 2003
  By David Joachim


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Who's Who at MCarran International Airport

McCarran International Airport; Las Vegas

11: Ranking among U.S. airports, by volume*

28: Airlines operating at McCarran

1: Number of carriers that use proprietary terminal equipment (Southwest, the airport's biggest carrier by volume)

12: Maximum number of minutes an airline can be off before McCarran takes over arrival/departure display

$60 mil: Cost to deploy common-use terminal equipment (CUTE) throughout airport

10: Percentage gain in gate capacity from use of

common-use terminals

$120 mil: Estimated cost to build a 10-gate terminal, avoided since 1998 thanks to CUTE

$39 mil: Interest payments avoided

$5.10: Average fee per passenger that airlines pay McCarran

$40 mil: Slot machine revenue

$18 mil: IT operating budget

30: IT staff at McCarran

3: IT staffers who have left in the past 10 years

*Source: U.S. Department of Transportation


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