LAS Daily Planning TELCON

Alex E Rookie

I've noticed this on the OIS lately:

LAS DAILY PLANNING TELCON: 0330Z - ACCESS VIA PLANNING TELCON/PIN #

Assuming that LAS, here, refers to KLAS why are they having separate TELCONS?

Stan Marsh Senior Member The Beach

Because they've got a constant flow program going on due to the ridiculous amount of runway and taxiway construction. I've been in and out of LAS 3 times in the last 3 weeks. It sucks.

Roddy_Piper Resident Knucklehead Vegas baby

they have a runway under construction and won't be back for 5 months. until then, expect GDP, MIT, or time based metering to LAS. here's to hoping LAS doesn't have to change runway configuration at the most inopportune time.

Alex E Rookie

5 months, that's just great. Thanks for the info.

Tonks Newcomer Las Vegas, NV

Just be glad it isn't for the 14 months that the original contract was for. I know I am.

Ammolite Unregistered

Thanks for the info. I'm fixin' to work at KLAS, and will be traveling there soon, as well.

Where exactly on the property is the construction taking place? Any present runways out of commission? 25/7/19/1?

This could explain the extraordinary amount of traffic on the 1 I heard the other day on their live feed.

Tonks Newcomer Las Vegas, NV

The construction is on the south side of the field. If you travel Sunset road you will see it all along the perimeter fence. Runway 25L/7R is the one under construction/replacement as it has meet its 13 year life expectancy. What will you be doing as work at LAS if you don't mind me asking?

Ammolite Unregistered

I don't mind; ATC at KLAS tower, hopefully. Do you happen to work there now?

Wow, 25L/7R. To my knowledge, that was the preferred arrival runway for almost all airliners from the east. No wonder 1R/1L were absolutely inundated yesterday. That must really complicate matters, seeing as the spatial configuration already merged the 1L/7L holding line as it was.

Tonks Newcomer Las Vegas, NV

I am a tracon TMC. Yes, the loss of 25L has cut our airport capacity in half. We try to be landing 1L/R and departing 7L from an intersection just east of the 1's as much as possible. historical wind data shows that we could be on that runway config 60-80% of the time during the winter months.

Ammolite Unregistered

Very neat; there aren't many folks from KLAS/L30 in general on here.

Are they giving you a hard time about noise abatement at night? I know they used to abstain from using the 19s/1s at certain hours.