The fig of passengers flying to and from Las Vegas plunged successful May from 2025, but a person look astatine details released Thursday by the Clark County Department of Aviation shows the numbers aren’t arsenic dire arsenic they appear.
Passenger totals astatine Harry Reid International Airport successful May fell 8.4 percent from past twelvemonth to 4.6 million.
The large dropoff was the effect of having a near-record 5 cardinal passengers successful May 2025, contempt it being the archetypal period of a slowdown by Canadian customers coming to the United States from respective north-of-the-border cities arsenic a effect of President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs and his remarks astir making Canada the 51st U.S. state.
Airport officials said Thursday that home rider postulation was down 8.6 percent to 4.2 million, planetary arrivals and departures were down 5.7 percent to 286,306 and the fig of passengers astatine the westside chopper and wide aviation flights is down 5.3 percent to 75,076.
The five-month rider full is disconnected 6.2 percent to 21.5 cardinal with overmuch of that attributable to the discontinuation of work by Florida-based discounter Spirit Airlines connected May 2.
Six of the apical 7 commercialized aerial carriers astatine Reid person higher five-month rider totals than a twelvemonth ago, including No. 6 Alaska Airlines being up 36.6 percent to 1.2 cardinal passengers and No. 5 Frontier Airlines up 10.7 percent to 1.7 million. No. 4 United Airlines is up 7.3 percent to 2 million, portion marketplace person Southwest Airlines climbed 0.7 percent to 8.8 cardinal implicit May 2025.
The lone declining home hose among the apical 7 was Delta Air Lines, disconnected 0.4 percent to 2.2 million.
International arrivals and departures proceed to slump with double-digit percent declines for the 3 large Canadian aerial carriers serving the Las Vegas market, WestJet, Air Canada and Porter Airlines.
British Airways is disconnected 5.1 percent, but its rival, Virgin Atlantic, roseate 11.4 percent for the archetypal 5 months of 2026.
Contact Richard N. Velotta astatine rvelotta@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta connected X.
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