Air passengers traveling through the Las Vegas airport fell 9.3% in June and remains down nearly 7% for the year. Some 4.2 million passengers traveled through Harry Reid International Airport in June, down from 4.72 million in June 2025.
For the year, the air passenger count is 25.7 million, down from 27.6 million for six months of 2025.
Despite that decline, visitor volume is up .2% for the year, led by convention business to make that number positive. Drive-in traffic from California has helped, up 4.1% for the year.
Domestic passenger traffic fell 10% in June, while international traffic rose .5% despite declines in Canadian travel.
For the first half of the year among Canadian airlines, Air Canada is down 16.2%, WestJet down 23.7%, and Porter Airlines down 35.7%.
While visitation to Las Vegas is flat, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reported visitation to Laughlin nearly 100 miles south at the Arizona border on the Colorado River is up nearly 6.8% for the year, after increasing 7.7% in 2025 when Las Vegas visitation fell 7.5%. Laughlin visitor volume rose 3% in June to 136,000. The average daily room rate in Laughlin was $70.48 in June, a nearly 11% increase over June 2025 when it was $63.38. Laughlin had $38.4 million in gaming revenue in June, down 4% from $20 million a year ago.
Mesquite, 80 miles northwest of Las Vegas, saw a 12% decline in visitor volume in June to 59,000. Its visitor volume is off 5.6% for the year. It had an average daily room rate of $96.46 in June, a 14.4% increase over June 2025. Despite the dip in visitation, local residents in Mesquite with its large senior population helped gaming revenue grow nearly 3% in June to $14.5 million. Gaming revenue is up 5% for the year.
