He wants to be ready to go to work first thing in the morning on what could be one of the busiest work days of his life.

"I have 13 weddings, back to back, starting at 6 in the morning," said the lead Wedding Chapel pastor at the Wynn. "I actually have one opening at 5 a.m. if anyone's interested."

Henney said there is far more interest in getting married July 7, the lucky 7-7-07 day, than there was for Valentine's Day this year.

Part of the reason is that Valentine's Day fell at midweek this year, while 7-7-07 hits a weekend sweet spot.

Predictably, the most popular time to be married is 7 p.m.

"I wouldn't be surprised if this turns out to be the biggest day for weddings in Las Vegas history," said Henney, who has been at the Wynn since it opened and has conducted weddings there and across the street at the Venetian for several years.

Jacquie Montoya, who has worked in wedding chapels in hotels owned by Steve Wynn for the last 15 years and now oversees a staff of 15 at Wynn Las Vegas, said in order to accommodate the large number of customers who want to be married at the Wynn on 7-7-07, chapel personnel are taking over one of the ballrooms at the property, decorating it and turning it into a temporary chapel.

Montoya said there are 26 wedding events booked at Wynn but big numbers, she said, aren't as important to her as maintaining a quality guest experience on a day when getting married is in such demand.

"We're not shooting for having 777 weddings or something," she said. "We're trying to stay focused and we're still trying to take care of people, and we're still getting inquiries."

Montoya said some of the 26 events will last an hour and some will go two. In order to accommodate everybody, festivities will start just after the clock strikes 12 on July 6 and end just after midnight on July 7.

Although Mose Henney's day will start at 6, a lot of the work will occur the day before. On July 6, he'll assist at five wedding rehearsals for Saturday and four other weddings scheduled for that day.

Henney isn't disheartened that so many people seem obsessed with luck being the foundation for a good marriage.

"Actually, my guess is that if you interview most of the grooms involved they're just relieved that they're getting married on a day that will be easier for them to remember," Henney said.

Henney is used to long hours on Valentine's Day and on New Year's Eve, another popular date to get married.

But he won't see anything like July 7 for awhile — except maybe Aug. 8 next year.

"I imagine we may see a lot of Asian people wanting to get married on 8-8-08, because that's a lucky number for that culture," he said.

That date falls on a Friday.

In other news:

Gay Days: July 7 isn't just for couples getting married and gamblers hoping for that little extra burst of luck in Las Vegas.

It's also the centerpiece of Gay Days and Nights Las Vegas, a campaign by gay-friendly businesses to embrace the LGBT (that's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) market.

Activities run July 4-8 with special meet-and-greet events planned by the various Cirque du Soleil casts. Organizers say Cirque shows are one of the top reasons gay travelers come to Las Vegas.

Special events are planned July 4 at Treasure Island's "Mystere" show, July 5 at Bellagio's "O," July 6 at New York-New York's "Zumanity," July 7 at MGM Grand's "Ka" and July 8 at The Mirage's "Love."

Additional information is available at www.gaydaysandnights.com.

Plugging in at 30,000 feet: Coming on the heels of Consumer Reports' airline passenger satisfaction survey from its July edition, commented on here last week, was the latest J.D. Power & Associates North America Airline Satisfaction Study.

The studies had different scoring systems and their categories weighted what's most important differently, but the results were pretty much the same.

New York-based JetBlue finished at the top of J.D. Power's list of low-cost carriers while Continental Airlines fared the best among what it calls "traditional network carriers." Continental was ninth out of 18 in the Consumer Reports ratings.

J.D. Power ranked Frontier, Southwest and AirTran behind JetBlue in the low-cost category, while Continental was trailed by Delta, American, Alaska, United, US Airways, Air Canada and Northwest in the traditional network segment.

The interesting factoid that appeared in the J.D. Power report was that the new breed of fliers, Generation X and Y passengers, want to be able to use their gadgets inflight and will demand power and data ports at their seats. The Power study said that among Gen X passengers, born between 1965 and 1976, 54 percent want in-seat satellite television, while Gen Y passengers, born between 1977 and 1994, are seven times more likely to want in-flight video games than people born before 1945.

"Airline passengers want the comforts of home as they fly and members of Generations X and Y are becoming the new breed of fliers," said Linda Hirneise, executive director or J.D. Power's travel practice. "They expect to be able to work long hours on their computers and travel with electronic devices such as video games and MP3 players, and want power outlets on airplanes. These passengers also want various modes of entertainment to keep them in a pleasant frame of mind."

That could explain why JetBlue and Frontier ranked so high in the Power rankings. They already have seat-back televisions.

US Airways had to have been disappointed with the study. After finishing dead last in the Consumer Reports survey, the airline was categorized among traditional carriers instead of with low-cost carriers (the company's stock symbol is LCC, by the way). But, had they been categorized with low-cost carriers, the airline's cumulative score would have placed it below AirTran.

Southwest to Europe? Southwest Airlines Chief Executive Gary Kelly turned a few heads when he told a Baltimore group recently that he'd like his company to sell tickets to Europe some day.

No, the peanut-toting low-cost carrier that has its biggest operation in Las Vegas isn't going to start flying its Boeing 737s over the Atlantic Ocean. Instead, look for Southwest's partnership with ATA to expand and for that airline to begin offering flights to Europe from Baltimore-Washington International Airport, one of Southwest's big East Coast strongholds. A new open-skies agreement will enable U.S. carriers to fly between U.S. and European cities in the years ahead.

Southwest already connects to Hawaii with ATA with some routings through McCarran. Kelly told a business group that the company is updating its computers to offer ATA connections to Mexico, Canada and the Caribbean by 2009 with operations to Europe shortly after that.

The advantage for Southwest is that it will be able to offer more destinations for its customers without having to certificate its planes or crews for flights over water (as was the case for ATA's Hawaii flights).

More upside for Las Vegas is that it will have one-stop routings to Las Vegas from Europe on a low-cost carrier, although some critics are bound to say that bargain-seekers aren't the types of customers that will fill luxury resorts being built.

No drinking over New Mexico: The Arizona Republic recently reported that US Airways' request for a 90-day extension of its temporary liquor license was rejected by the New Mexico Department of Regulation and Licensing.

That means the Phoenix-based airline can't offer alcoholic beverages on its flights from Las Vegas to Albuquerque.

State officials denied the license because a citation involving a fatal car accident in which a driver was intoxicated after being served drinks on a US Airways flight remains unresolved.

Airline officials said they were surprised by the rejection and that they have a permanent license request under consideration.

Meanwhile, the union representing flight attendants for US Airways is appealing to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who is among the Democratic presidential hopefuls wooing labor.