As the celebrities and rich headed to Las Vegas for the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight on Saturday night, the airport was teaming with private jets to the extent that the airport had no more room for airplanes. A tweet on the official account for McCarran International Airport stated that it was closed to private planes for the time being while private air traffic was asked to land either at Henderson Executive Airport or the North Las Vegas airport so as to make room for airplanes.
This photo clicked by Tony Veitch, a prominent sports reporter from New Zealand, shows the status of Las Vegas airport a few hours before what was touted as the fight of the century.
Pictures shared on Twitter by LA TV reporter Liz Habib showed the private jets parked in close confines and in fact so tightly parked that wing to wing and nose to nose parking was evident. The visitors to the boxing match of the century between Floyd Mayweather Jr and Manny Pacquiao will have a long wait in their bid to get out of the airport.
Mayweather has earned $179,808,511 (Rs 1,145 crores), while rival Manny has earned $119,872,340 (Rs 763 crores) from this one single fight.
The #MayPac effect at Las Vegas airport
Among the celebrities who attended the match were JayZ, Beyonce, Mark Wahlberg and Jake Gyllenhaal. Jimmy Kimmel, Nicki Minaj and Justin Bieber were also present at the show each arriving in their private jets and cramming the airport. Mayweather won the fight on unanimous decision.
Justin Beiber, one of Mayweather’s ardent supporter, too was at the event. Pic clicked just before the fight.
Mayweather with his collection of cars and jets
Mayweather with his collection of cars and jets
Manny Pacquiao on the other hand, is not as flamboyant.
