It’s a good 12 months for worldwide journey to Las Vegas.
Qantas will start the first-ever nonstop service to Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS) in Las Vegas from Sydney Airport (SYD) beginning Dec. 29, the Australian provider stated on Wednesday. The flights, which can final 13 hours and 55 minutes, will function on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays with a Boeing 787-9 by March 12, 2027.
LAS is the Oneworld alliance provider’s sixth U.S. vacation spot after Dallas-Fort Price, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco.
The brand new SYD-LAS route may also be a part of Qantas’ shut partnership with American Airways. That pact contains reciprocal loyalty advantages for members of American Airways AAdvantage and Qantas Frequent Flyer.
A Qantas development story
The brand new LAS route is the newest from fast-growing Qantas and is fueled by the arrival of a brand new airplane each three weeks on common.
The airline is taking supply of recent Airbus A220s and A321neos for its home Australia and regional flying, Boeing 787s for long-haul flying and Airbus A350-1000s for its “Mission Dawn” ultra-long-haul ambitions of linking Sydney with London and New York nonstop.
“Our historic fleet renewal is giving us the flexibleness to deploy plane the place we see demand, opening up route potentialities that merely weren’t there earlier than,” Cam Wallace, CEO of Qantas Worldwide, stated in an announcement. “Las Vegas turns into our one hundred and first vacation spot and is a superb instance of how we’re utilizing that functionality.”
Wallace cited full constitution flights to LAS that the airline has flown for the Nationwide Rugby League’s season kickoff since 2024 for example of the journey demand out there.
Different latest additions by Qantas embrace Perth Airport (PER) to Paris’ Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG) in 2024, and Melbourne Airport (MEL) to Honolulu’s Daniel Ok. Inouye Worldwide Airport (HNL) and SYD to New Chitose Airport (CTS) close to Sapporo, Japan, in 2025, schedule information from aviation analytics agency Cirium reveals.
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Qantas’ worldwide enterprise turned an working revenue of 300 million Australian {dollars} ($214 million) through the six months ending in December, the primary half of the airline’s 2026 fiscal 12 months, it reported on Wednesday.
Increasing Vegas’ worldwide connections
The Sydney flight is the second large addition for LAS this 12 months. On April 15, Air France will start thrice-weekly flights to LAS from CDG, filling a spot within the airport’s European community.
Australia, nonetheless, is arguably a much bigger hole for the airport. The nation was the fourth-largest supply of worldwide guests to Las Vegas in 2024 — a spot it has held since 2010 — after Canada, Mexico and the U.Ok., the newest Las Vegas Conference and Guests Authority information reveals. And whereas numbers had but to get better to pre-coronavirus pandemic ranges, they have been climbing steadily after a pandemic low in 2021.
“Australia has constantly ranked as our second-largest abroad market and our high worldwide market with no nonstop flight,” Steve Hill, president and CEO of the LVCVA, stated in an announcement. “Greater than 250,000 Australians go to every year.”
The one different common nonstop flight from LAS to the Asia-Pacific area is operated by Korean Air to Incheon Worldwide Airport (ICN) close to Seoul, South Korea.
LAS provides as much as $3 million yearly in airport payment waivers for so long as three years to incentivize airways to launch new worldwide air service, like Qantas’ new SYD-LAS nonstop.
Extra connectivity is nice information for Las Vegas, because it has seen customer numbers slide just lately. In 2025, the variety of guests to the town fell 9% 12 months over 12 months to almost 3.1 million, and the variety of occupied room nights fell greater than 7%, LVCVA information reveals.
