By October, the airlines serving Harry Reid International Airport will have more seats coming into Las Vegas than anytime in the airport’s history.

That’s because an average 98,697 seats on 31 airlines flying from 146 nonstop markets will be arriving at Reid every day, said the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority’s aviation consultant this month.

It’s great news for Southern Nevada’s tourism economy, but the challenge now becomes filling most of those seats every flight. The more available seats, the more visitors we see – and June provided an all-time passenger record for the city’s airport of 4.68 million for the month.

“We don’t talk about recovery anymore,” said Joel Van Over, senior director at Ailevon Pacific, an international aviation development company with its North American headquarters in Atlanta.