A major step in the process of building a new airport south of Las Vegas to supplement Harry Reid International Airport operations is expected to begin sometime this year.
The Southern Nevada Supplemental Airport in the Ivanpah Valley between Jean and Primm just east of Interstate 15 has been under consideration for decades. For various reasons over the years — the economic downturn of the late 2000s and the COVID-19 shutdown in 2020 among them — the Clark County Department of Aviation has kept plans on the shelf as Reid slowly continued growing.
With a record number of passengers over the past three years, with Reid serving 58.4 million people in 2024, airport administrators knew it was time to get busy on SNSA again.
