Spirit, actively seeking a buyout, wasted no time finding a new suitor. Today, JetBlue announced it has agreed to acquire Spirit for $3.8 billion.<\/strong><\/p>\nJetBlue is a minor service provider to Las Vegas. The airliner carried 74,517 passengers in and\/or out of Las Vegas last month, ranking it ninth at the airport.<\/p>\n
If the JetBlue-Spirit merger gains approvals from shareholders and antitrust regulators, the combined airline will become the fifth-largest commercial airliner in the nation.<\/p>\n
International Remains Down<\/b><\/h2>\n International traffic through Harry Reid International remains significantly below 2019 pre-pandemic levels, as COVID concerns limit the foreign leisure segment.<\/p>\n
June’s 244,000 international passenger count is 25% below June 2019, when a little more than 327,000 foreigners ventured into Southern Nevada. Through June 2022, international travel to the Las Vegas airport remains 44% suppressed.<\/p>\n
Mexico and Canada are the two most important international feeder markets for Las Vegas. The countries accounted for over 63% of the foreign visitor load in 2019.<\/strong><\/p>\nIn June, the Biden administration did away with mandatory COVID-19 testing requirements for incoming international travelers. Before the lifting, all incoming travelers from foreign nations — including US citizens seeking to return home — had to present a negative coronavirus test to board an airplane destined for the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Harry Reid International, the primary Las Vegas airport that served nearly 40 million passengers last year, has set a new monthly passengers record. Las Vegas airport officials say its terminals facilitated more than 4.68 million travelers last month. That eclipses its previous all-time busiest month of 4.61 million passengers, set in October 2019. Harry Reid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":223551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,81886],"tags":[82057,23,82058],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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