As is likely true of many other Airways readers, I've flown into Las Vegas dozens of times (in my case for business-really) and thus used to know McCarran Airport well. Over more than three decades, I've seen that airport grow with the city it serves. That's the story Bubb relates here in his brief survey. Drawing on his masters and doctoral theses, Bubb places the Las Vegas air service story into the broader context of US air transport. As the gambling mecca grew after World War II, air service became increasingly central to the city's expansion given its relative isolation from other urban areas.
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