Welcome to Harry Reid Airport

Oscar's.
just leave it alone.
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Originally posted by: billryan
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
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He also was the inspiration for the corrupt Senator in the God-Father movies.




You mean Mc Carron was the inspiration for Senator Geary in the Godfather? Loved the actor.

Unless it is changing an airport from "O.J. Simpson Airport", I do not believe a name should be replaced. If it is a location like Burbank Airport being renamed to Bob Hope Airport or Orange County Airport being renamed to John Wayne Airport, then I have no problem with it. Most of the world associates Las Vegas with Mc Carran Airport. I think they should let it be. Besides, Harry Reid is hardly an inspirational person to name an airport after.



I can get you a gaming license. The price is $250,000, plus a monthly payment of five percent of the gross of all four hotels. [sneers] Mr. Corl-ee-own-eh.

Because I intend to squeeze you. I don't like your kind of people. I don't like to see you come out to this clean country with your oily hair, dressed up in those silk suits, passing yourselves off as decent Americans. I'll do business with you, but the fact is that I despise your masquerade, the dishonest way you pose yourself. Yourself and your whole f***ing family.

I think I'll try one of those -- red headed Yolandas.






If you asked 100 Americans on the street to name the Las Vegas airport, I suspect very few would come up with it. I'm not a Reid fan, and I don't like naming things after living people, but Reid has bought a ton of money and influence to Nevada. More importantly, he kept Yucca Mountain from happing.


100 people on the street are too stupid to know the name of Mc Carran Airport. Go to LAX (Los Angeles International Airport) and ask people waiting at Southwest to fly to Vegas if they know the name of the airport and I guarantee over 90% of them would know it.

Naming airports after people is stupid. Naming airports after politicians is doubling down on that stupidity.
Name the airport after the city/town/area it's in and call it good.

Mc Carren is fine and people are use to it.
LAS is the airline code.
Change it to EAP,then some airlines would object. Elvis.
LAS is fine.
LAX is fine.
SEA is fine.
SEX is not.
STD is not.
YYZ is kinda cool.
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