Airlines and gamblers return to Las Vegas; others struggle

The world's premier gambling cities and the airports that support them have taken a huge hit from something they could not have predicted for all their algorithms - the arrival and rapid spread of the coronavirus.

Las Vegas is one of several airports around the world where traffic figures are heavily influenced by gambling activities. Others include the competing Nevada resort city of Reno, Atlantic City in New Jersey, Monte Carlo (Monaco) on the Mediterranean Sea, and Macau in Southeast Asia, which is regarded as the world's #1 gambling city.

But gamblers are a hardy bunch, and resort cities like Las Vegas are seeing an upturn in demand and capacity. This report looks at what is happening there and at other comparable cities/airports in the U.S., Europe and Asia.