US Airways Cuts Flights
to Las Vegas
- LAS VEGAS - US Airways announced a 4 percent reduction
in departures, which will affect the Arlington, VA-based
carrier's minimal schedule in Las Vegas. The airline will
cut three round trips out of 27 flights a week to McCarran
International Airport. Citing weakened demand due to the
war in Iraq, the airline said for the month of April,
it would cut its last flight of the day from Pittsburgh
on Tuesdays and Wednesdays and its last flight of the
day from Charlotte, N.C. on Saturdays, in addition to
their respective return flights.
California Casino Expansion
Ahead of Schedule
- SAN PASQUAL INDIAN RESERVATION, CA – The San Pasqual
Indian band is months ahead of schedule in launching a
$30 million casino expansion. After
saying in January that construction would begin this summer,
the Valley Center-area tribe last week began erecting
a prefabricated structure for a 350-seat bingo hall.
It
is expected to open in April 2003 and will offer the only
bingo play at any of North County's five casinos. The
first portion of the addition, expected to open in June,
is being built to house an undisclosed number of slot
machines, said Dave Toler of the tribe's casino management
committee. Toler would not say how many slots are being
added to the casino's inventory of 900, but he previously
said the expansion would allow for 1,500 to 2,000.
Atlantic City Casinos
Sprucing Up
- ATLANTIC CITY, NJ - The longtime home of the Miss America
Pageant is now the backdrop of a different kind of beauty
contest. This time, the contestants are its casinos.
With
the splashy, billion-dollar Borgata Hotel Casino &
Spa set to open soon, the seaside's grand dames of gambling
are looking in the mirror. Many are scrambling to hide
signs of their age. Some of Atlantic City's mainstays
Showboat,
Bally's
Park Place and Trump
Taj Mahal among them have undergone or are undergoing
expensive facelifts. They're all trying to fend off competition
from the hot little number up the street, the towering
Borgata. Forty-three stories tall and teeming with glitz,
it's the biggest thing to hit Atlantic City in years.
