Las Vegas Airport Continues Historic Post-Pandemic Rise, Soars to New Record
Las Vegas was bustling lowest year, as 40.8 1000000 people visited the casino town. The city’s primary feather airport, Harry Reid International, served many of the travelers, as the drome reported record passenger numbers this week.
A financial statement from the primary quill commercial drome serving Southern NV revealed that Harry Thomas Reid International accommodated 57.6 gazillion arriving and departing passengers in 2023. The tape tot up soared past the airport’s previous all-time in high spirits of 52.6 jillion passengers achieved inwards 2022.
Setting a new one-year rider track record emphasizes the strength of broadcast traveling in Las Vegas and the trust inward Harry Reid International Airport to drive home a world-class customer experience,” said Rosemary Vassiliadis, Mark Clark County’s theatre director of aviation. “We worked to call down the exclude fifty-fifty farther in 2023, as millions travelled for special events, conventions, sporting events, concerts, and more. Our attention is already focused on 2024 and get together the continued demand for our growing region.”
Domestic traffic climbed almost 9% to 53.4 gazillion passengers. International traffic took off too, rising over 28% to virtually 3.2 1000000 passengers. The remaining ane 1000000 passengers came or left via helicopters.
Destination Las Vegas
Southern Nevada is known for its integrated cassino resorts, convening capabilities, first-class dining, and raw(a) wildlife and excursions — all of it paired with abundant sunshine. But inward recent years, Las Vegas has emerged as a major sports destination, too.
Once shunned by pro sports for its widespread sports gambling, Las Vegas garnered its number one major sports franchise inwards 2017 with the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights. The hockey team up reached the Sir Henry Morton Stanley Cup Finals inwards the enlargement team’s first of all flavour in existence. The Golden Knights won the sought after prize endure twelvemonth inward the team’s 5th year.
The relocation of the NFL Raiders from Oakland to Las Vegas in advance of the 2020 season farther solidified Las Vegas as a major sports town. The urban center will only when spread out its sports offering inwards the coming years when MLB’s Oakland A’s relocate to Las Vegas with a young ballpark where the Tropicana currently stands.
Aviation officials inward Joe Clark County say they are continuing to explore its resources to fulfil the ongoing demand increases. The county is considering a indorsement commercial-grade drome inwards the Ivanpah Valley SW of Las Vegas. The project, called the Southern NV Supplemental Airport, testament before long undergo an environmental impact review.
Southwest Expands Market Control
Southwest Airlines carried to a greater extent passengers to and from Harry Reid cobbler's last yr than any other airliner. The affordable bearer served o'er 20.8 gazillion passengers, a nearly 16% year-over-year increase.
Spirit Airlines was a removed endorsement at 8.4 trillion flyers. Earlier this month, a federal judge out of use(p) JetBlue’s proposed $3.8 1000000000000 acquisition of Spirt on concerns the merger could threaten rivalry and harm the US airmanship market with higher fares. JetBlue and Spirit are appealing the decision.
JetBlue served well-nigh one billion passengers through and through Harry Reid finally year. If JetBlue were allowed to acquire the ultra-low-cost carrier, the combined airway would more or less snack into Southwest’s ascendancy inwards Southern Nevada.