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