If the casinos want to bring in people badly enough, they can form partnerships with airlines and subsidize tickets. The airline can offer a PHL-LAS roundtrip for $250 as long as the MGM Mirage corporation is footing the other $200.....
Exactly.
Any entity in LAS that fears a reduction in flights will cause a decrease in business is more than welcome to subsidize air travel to get people to come and play.
Better yet, they can send me a check or blackjack vouchers and cut out the middle airline.