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Gov. Steve Sisolak and several other officials will be on hand for a ceremony formally re-branding the airport.

Las Vegas McCarran International Airport is officially being renamed after Harry Reid as of December 2021. Here are the full details.

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Routes: AA/JetBlue team up + JetBlue fare changes, Eureka, Southwest, no domestic testing, more A weekly roundup of air travel and airport news Jim Glab FacebookTwitterEmail American Airlines and JetBlue have unveiled their initial plans for code-sharing and marketing cooperation on routes out of New York and Boston, a partnership they announced last summer. The two airlines didn’t have much to say about how the partnership will affect the New York-San Francisco market, which they both serve...

Associated Press LAS VEGAS – A county board voted unanimously Tuesday to rename busy McCarran International Airport after former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada. The all-Democratic Clark County Commission approved a measure directing the county’s airport staff to file a change with the Federal Aviation Administration renaming the facility Harry Reid International Airport. The county commission oversees the airport and is the final authority on a name change. There have been long-standing ca...

Las Vegas airport may soon be named after former Sen. Harry Reid Lori Aratani © John Locher/AP In this March 2020 photo, a plane takes off at McCarran International airport in Las Vegas. A county board voted unanimously Tuesday to rename the airport after former U.S. Sen. Harry M. Reid of Nevada. (AP Photo/John Locher) Las Vegas’s McCarran International Airport may soon sport the name of another U.S. Senator: former Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid. The Clark Count...

“You name things in your community after people that represent your community, and to me Sen. Reid embodies the American dream. He came from nothing and became one of the most powerful people in the world,” said Commissioner Ross Miller, who said Mr. Reid embodies that dream “maybe more so than anybody else in the history of this country.” “That’s the story we want to tell. That’s what we want everybody who comes into Las Vegas to see,” Mr. Miller said. Mr. Reid himself had push...

The Clark County Commission voted unanimously today to rename McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas to Harry Reid International Airport, after the retired US Senate majority leader and native of Searchlight, Nevada. The renaming of McCarran International Airport had always been contentious: Patrick McCarran, also a US Senator, was a proponent of modern aviation in the USA, but was also a known racist and anti-semite.

Feb 17, 2021 LAS VEGAS (AP) — A county board voted unanimously Tuesday to rename busy McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas after former U.S. Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada.The all-Democratic Clark County Commission approved a measure directing the county’s airport staff to file a change with the Federal Aviation Administration renaming the facility Harry Reid International Airport. The county commission oversees the airport and is the final authority on a name change. There have been long...

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