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| 3:01PM 3/08/2011
In celebration of its new route flying from Los Angeles to Vegas, stunt-savvy Spirit Airlines is offering a $9 fare each way from La-La-land to Sin City. Taxes and fees quickly ratchet that price up to $39 round trip, but it's still less than what you'll lose to the slots -- or pay if you want to...
| 7:00PM 2/08/2011
More visitors made their way to Sin City last year compared to 2009, helping to boost room rates at Las Vegas hotels -- even though hotel occupancy actually fell.
| 3:30PM 6/10/2009
On Tuesday, the casino resort developer, Fontainebleau Las Vegas LLC announced that it has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.This resulted from the company's failure to get a lender to complete $800 Million of funding for the construction of a $2.9 billion property on the Vegas strip. This...
| 6:00PM 12/15/2008
It turns out that the idea that gambling is a recession-proof industry is just another myth. Of course, casino insiders already knew this -- just ask them how business was following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. It took a while, but most casinos had pretty much recovered by the time the credit crisis...