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Well, since I'm fairly versed in this....haha...
There are two main traffic flows coming in and out of Vegas. The arrivals coming from LA fly north of the departures from LAS going to SoCal. If you vectored to the east, you'd be going right through all of the departures coming out of Vegas. We vector you to the north, so as not to have conflict with Vegas departures.
FYI...if you fly on Jetblue, you will cruise at 24,000 feet from Vegas to LA. Any other airline, you can count on 28K'. Traffic flow is determined by LAX's arrival rate. If the weather is crap, or construction is going on, they will drop the arrival rate (meaning, no shortcuts for you). Generally, you can count on flying out of Vegas, talking to me out of 18,000'. I send you direct GRAMM intersection on the RIIVR2 arrival, or I'll just keep you over HEC vortac. I'll descend you down to SoCal Tracon, and hand off for final vectors. The tricky thing is that R2501 (Twenty Nine Palms) is right in the middle of your arrival into LAX. If the airspace is hot, plan on flying on course over HEC. If it's released 27K' and above, I can shortcut you right over the top.
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-mike
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