LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — If airways have been searching for an end-of-summer surge in journey, it did not occur in Las Vegas. As a substitute, passenger counts continued to say no in September, in response to figures launched Tuesday by Harry Reid Worldwide Airport.
With 4.45 million arriving and departing passengers on the Las Vegas airport, air vacationers have been down by 6.4% in comparison with September 2024. The persevering with decline confirmed 2.5% fewer passengers than in August 2025.
With 9 months gone in 2025, passenger counts for the yr are 4.7% behind final yr’s tempo. Final yr, 43.5 million folks flew in or out of Reid Airport by the tip of September. This yr, that depend is at 41.4 million.
Tourism has dropped for the reason that starting of the yr. A lot of the decline is blamed on worries over the economic system and its response to the Trump administration’s tariff insurance policies. Different elements in Las Vegas embody issues at Spirit Airways, which has filed for chapter twice this yr, and an general tourism letdown following 2024, when the Tremendous Bowl was performed in Las Vegas for the primary time.
AUGUST 2025: Home journey to Las Vegas down 5.9% year-over-year
Southwest Airways, the main service at Reid Airport, bucked the pattern together with United Airways, the fourth-largest service within the Las Vegas market. Southwest was up 5.5% in comparison with final September, and United was up 5.4%.
That wasn’t sufficient to spice up home passenger ranges that Spirit Airways misplaced. The low cost service posted a forty five.8% decline in comparison with September 2024. The desk beneath exhibits Spirit’s stark decline compared with different prime carriers in Las Vegas:
Spirit’s management started a marketing campaign in September to attempt to seize a few of Southwest’s enterprise, asserting a brand new program to permit vacationers to test two luggage (as much as 50 kilos every). However prospects must be enrolled in a bank card program to qualify for the perk. September’s passenger counts wouldn’t mirror attainable success on that entrance. Because the month ended, Spirit mentioned it might furlough practically 400 Las Vegas flight attendants.
Southwest scrapped its two-bags-fly-free coverage this yr.
Home passengers have been down 4.9% general, and worldwide vacationers have been 3.3% decrease than in September 2024, with Canadian airways displaying the large declines in comparison with final yr. However Air Canada posted a giant improve from August to September, carrying 43,553 passengers — a 40.4% acquire in a single month.
