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Airline delays adding flights to Las Vegas
| Tuesday, Mar 11 2008 5:37 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday, Mar 12 2008 8:11 AM
The rising cost of oil has stymied plans to add more nonstop flights to Las Vegas from Meadows Field, airport officials said Tuesday.
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Allegiant Air had run occasional charter flights from Bakersfield to Las Vegas for special trips and planned to announced a switch to regular service, said Jack Gotcher, director of Kern County Airports.
But the airline decided to hold off at the last minute.
“Today when oil hit $108 a barrel, they said let's put this start off a month or two,” Gotcher said, adding that he’s “skeptical if it will be just a month.”
Meadows Field currently offers one flight a day to Sin City on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, according to the airport’s flight schedule.