According to a report from Harry Reid International Airport, the number of people flying in and out of Las Vegas remained steady last month. LAS served 4,881,617 passengers in April, a 1.5% increase over the same month in 2023. That brings the year-to-date count to 18,610,436 people, a 1.6% rise.
International travel saw the biggest year-over-year change, with a 17.1% increase. Domestic travel was up 0.7%, while west side and helicopter traffic dipped 7.3%.
While Reid officials did not want to speculate about the decline in the latter category, a company representative familiar with westside terminal operations said the downturn is the result of pilot and maintenance worker shortages, reports Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Carriers Delta (12.5%), Southwest (11.3%), and United (10.7%) all saw double-digit increases over their respective passenger counts one year ago. An outlier was Spirit, which saw a drop of over 20%.
Reid International will welcome a new foreign carrier in October after Irish operator Aer Lingus earlier in May announced nonstop flights three times a week between Las Vegas and Dublin, reports Review-Journal.
The airport set a record for passenger traffic in 2023 and is on pace to eclipse that total in 2024.
Original article: https://www.yogonet.com/international/noticias/2024/05/31/72445-las-vegas-harry-reid-international-airport-sees-15-increase-in-passenger-traffic-in-april
