Which Airlines Operate The Most International Flights From Las Vegas?

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.

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).

Virgin Atlantic Airbus A330-900 landing shutterstock_2460261073

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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.

British Airways Boeing 777 Landing At Heathrow

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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:

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 Airbus A320neo.

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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.

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

Vancouver (YVR)

998 miles

3 hours

Airbus A320

Montreal (YUL)

2,246 miles

4 hours 50 minutes

Airbus A319

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.

Grounded WestJet Boeing 737 MAX 8 in Calgary shutterstock_1466959700

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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.

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