“Arrived in #LasVegas to a #SoldOut airport! Ready for the big fight tonight #MayweatherPacquiao #Boxing
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Musician and producer Emilio Estefan, who was headed to the boxing match, also tweeted an image of the full lot at McCarran. “Arrived in #LasVegas to a #SoldOut airport! Ready for the big fight tonight #MayweatherPacquiao #Boxing,” he wrote on Saturday.
Arrived in #LasVegas to a #SoldOut airport! Ready for the big fight tonight#MayweatherPacquiao #Boxing pic.twitter.com/jYjrnqzZUo
— Emilio Estefan (@EmilioEstefanJr) May 2, 2015
The match, which drew big-name attendees including Beyoncé, Jay, Mark Wahlberg, Justin Bieber and Tom Brady, was the biggest payday in boxing history. Pacquiao and Mayweather were estimated to split $300 million before even entering the ring at Las Vegas’s Grand Garden Arena. Many celebs bet big on the match, including Wahlberg, who went head-to-head with Diddy for a cool $250,000.
Officials for McCarran International said it was expected to reach record volume, and airport officials were directing passengers to nearby, less familiar airports, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported on Friday.
Rita Carrillo, manager for Signature Flight Support, one of the companies receiving private planes at McCarran, also told the newspaper that the weekend’s estimated volume was the largest she could remember in her 30 years at the airport.
“I don’t think people realize the magnitude of this event,” Carrillo said, continuing, “and the type of clientele that is coming in to see us.”