By Air in Las Vegas

By Air

Flying times:

To Las Vegas: from New York, five hours; from Dallas, two hours; from Chicago, four hours; from Los Angeles, one hour; from San Francisco, one-and-a-half hours.

If you travel frequently, look into the TSA's Registered Traveler program. The program, which is still being tested in several U.S. airports, is designed to cut down on gridlock at security checkpoints by allowing prescreened travelers to pass quickly through kiosks that scan an iris and/or a fingerprint.

A handful of Vegas hotels offer off-site baggage check-in, which allows hotel guests to obtain boarding passes and check their luggage directly at the hotel. Venetian and Luxor were the first properties to offer this, and it's expected that others will eventually follow. Of course, even where off-site luggage check-in is not available, you can always save time by checking in online and printing out your boarding pass before you depart for the airport.

Airlines & Airports

Airline and Airport Links.com (www.airlineandairportlinks.com) has links to many of the world's airlines and airports.

Airline Security Issues

Transportation Security Administration (www.tsa.gov) has answers for almost every question that might come up.