International travel to Las Vegas is surging, LVCVA reports

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 8:43 PM
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  • Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review Journal

International air travel capacity to Las Vegas will fully recover from the pandemic by the fourth quarter, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority was told Tuesday.

By the end of the year, international air capacity will have reached 104 percent of pre-pandemic levels with flights from every global destination except Canada exceeding full capacity — and Canada will be at 99 percent, said Joel Van Over, senior director at Atlanta-based Ailevon, an international aviation development company and the LVCVA’s airline development consultant.

Van Over, who will work on Las Vegas’ behalf for additional airlift at the 2024 World Routes Conference in the Kingdom of Bahrain in October, said new flights from several international air carriers are contributing to a record number of flights from foreign countries.