Summary International capacity at LAS to reach 104% by year-end. WestJet tops in flights, seats, and ASMs from Las Vegas. Air Canada offers the most flights and seats internationally from LAS.
Only a few days ago, news broke out that the international capacity at Las Vegas was expected to go as high as it was before Covid-19 . Harry Reid International Airport (LAS), in particular, is expected to reach 104% of pre-pandemic levels. All the global destinations that are served by this airport (barring Canada) are also expected to exceed full capacity.
In light of such news, one might wonder which airlines operate the highest number of international flights from Las Vegas. Let's find out. International capacity will be at 104% compared to pre-pandemic levels by the end of the year.
Just under a thousand flights Airline Number of flights Number of seats Virgin Atlantic (VS) 852 238,100 Porter Airline (PD) 975 128,700 Virgin Atlantic (VS)'s 852 flights from Las Vegas for 2024 are the least on this list. According to data from " Cirium, an aviation analytics company ", Virgin Atlantic is offering just over 238,000 seats on its flights from Las Vegas. This is over 100,000 seats greater than the number of seats offerd by the Canadian carrier - Porter Airline (PD).
According to flightsfrom.com , Virgin Atlantic operates to the following destinations from Las Vegas: London (LHR) on a ten-hour flight covering 5246 miles. Manchester (MAN) on a one-hour forty-minute journey covering 5,102 miles.
On the other hand, Porter Airline operates to Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ), Montréal–Trudeau International Airport (YUL), and Ottawa/Macdonald–Cartier International Airport (YOW). Four carriers are offering between 1000-2000 flights Airline Number of flights Number of seats Aeromexico (AM) 1,000 176,188 British Airways (BA) 1,003 331,783 Flair Airline (F8) 1,365 258,579 Viva Aerobus (VB) 1,570 336,664 Although Aeromexico (AM) offers an almost equal number of flights from Las Vegas in 2024 as British Airways (BA), the number of seats offered on BA is almost two times higher. The ASM's offered on BA's flights from Las Vegas are 1,737,275,770.
This is almost seven times greater than that of AM. In addition to LHR, British Airways also operates to London Gatwick Airport (LGW) from Las Vegas. British Airways flights from LAS depart from Terminal 3, and all of this carrier's flights take place to England.
BA deploys its Airbus A350 and Boeing 777s on these routes. The top routes where Flair Airlines (F8) flies to from LAS include: Edmonton International Airport (YEG) Calagry International Airport (YYC) Vancouver International Airport (YVR) Let's take a look at the operations of Viva Aerobus (VB) from LAS, according to flightconnections.com : Arrival Airport Distance Approximate flight time Aircraft used Guadalajara International Airport (GDL) 1,290 miles 3 hours and 30 minutes Airbus A320 Mexico City International Airport (MEX) 1,507 miles 4 hours and 5 minutes Airbus A321 Monterrey Airport (MTY) 1,137 miles 3 hours and 5 minutes Airbus A321 Volaris - the carrier with just over 2000 flights Mexico's largest airline in terms of the number of passengers transported - Volaris (Y4) - has 2,032 flights from Las Vegas in 2024.
While Volaris does offer flights from LAS to GDL and MEX (and therefore, is a competitor with Viva Aerobus and Aeromexico, as we've discussed above), Volaris is also offering flights to Tijuana International Airport (TIJ) from October this year. Volaris, Aeromexico, and Viva Aerobus all offer one-stop flights from LAX to MEX and GDL, too. While all these carriers have a one-stop flight with a stopover in Mexico City (MEX), Viva Aerobus also offers a stop at Monterrey (MTY).
Air Canada Air Canada (AC) is offering 4,096 flights from LAS - almost twice the number of flights compared to Volaris. On these flights, Air Canada is offering 760,311 seats. Air Canada is offering more than a billion ASMs in its operations from LAS, making AC one of the three carriers offering more than a billion ASMs in its international operations from LAS.
While the equipment upgrade will be seasonal on flights to Miami, it is expected to last a bit longer on flights to the warm West Coast destinations. Let's take a look at a few operations of the flag carrier of Canada from LAS: Destination Distance Flight time (approximately) Aircraft used Toronto (YYZ) 1,949 miles 4 hours 18 minutes Boeing 787-8 Airbus A321 Vancouver (YVR) 998 miles 3 hours Airbus A320 Montreal (YUL) 2,246 miles 4 hours 50 minutes Airbus A319 Services will operate thrice weekly with convenient connections from the UK and Europe. WestJet leads the way Number of flights 6,117 Number of seats 1,001,508 Available Seat Miles 1,224,450,186 The number of flights WestJet (WS) offers from LAS is almost the same as that of Volaris (Y4) and Air Canada combined.
WS is also the only carrier that has offers more than a million seats on its flights from LAS in 2024. These are the airports where WS flies from LAX and competes with some other carriers we have touched upon already on this list before: Edmonton International Airport (YEG) on a 1,199-mile journey which WestJet covers in approximately three hours and twenty minutes. Calagry International Airport (YYC) on a 1,046-mile journey which WestJet covers in just under three hours.
Vancouver International Airport (YVR) on a 998-mile journey which WestJet covers in just under three hours. Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) on a 1949-mile journey. This is the longest of WS's operations to Canada from LAS.
The flight time is approximately four hours and eighteen minutes..
