United adding 44 new flights in January for CES crowd

United Airlines is adding 44 caller flights to and from Las Vegas successful January to service an anticipated surge successful demand for CES, the hose has announced.

Chicago-based United, the sixth-busiest commercialized aerial bearer astatine McCarran International Airport, said Monday that it volition summation capableness by 37 percent implicit what the hose usually flies successful January with caller flights and larger craft connected existing flights.

United has flown 1.9 cardinal passengers to and from Las Vegas successful the archetypal 3 quarters of 2021, a 39.5 percent diminution from the fig brought during the aforesaid play successful 2019.

“The instrumentality of in-person conferences and events is simply a precise affirmative motion successful the pandemic recovery, and United is uniquely positioned to capitalize connected this summation successful demand,” Ankit Gupta, elder vice president of home readying and United Express, said successful a institution release. “We’re adding astir 80 percent of the capableness we did for CES successful 2020, demonstrating that concern question is connected the rebound and our customers are anxious to reunite with clients and colleagues.”

United volition person nonstop flights from locations it doesn’t usually service to and from Las Vegas.

CES, the yearly user electronics amusement produced by the Consumer Electronics Association, usually is the largest commercialized amusement and normal connected the Las Vegas calendar. CES exhibits capable respective normal halls astir the city. Before the coronavirus pandemic, CES drew much than 180,000 attendees from astir the satellite each year.

Earlier this year, CES was conducted virtually. But organizers judge the instrumentality to a unrecorded amusement successful 2022 volition effect successful higher demand.

Between Oct. 27 and Nov. 9, searches connected United.com for flights to Las Vegas during CES 2022 were up 70 percent compared with the anterior two-week period, United officials said. According to a caller survey of United’s concern customers, astir 20 percent said they expect question to meetings and conferences volition transcend pre-pandemic levels successful 2022.

The hose is adding 14 caller nonstop flights successful aboriginal January betwixt Las Vegas and Boston; San Jose, California; and Fort Lauderdale and Orlando, Florida. United besides is ramping up work to its hub airports of San Francisco and Los Angeles planetary airports; Dulles International Airport successful Washington D.C. and Newark Liberty International Airport successful New Jersey.

United volition alert 81 flights into Las Vegas during the highest accomplishment days of Jan. 3-4, and 109 flights connected the highest departure days of Jan. 8-10. New flights include:

— Eight nonstop flights from San Jose

— Six nonstop flights from Fort Lauderdale, Boston and Orlando

— Fifteen further flights from San Francisco, including 9 flights connected a larger aircraft

— Eight further flights from Los Angeles, including 4 flights connected a larger aircraft

— Five further flights from Dulles successful Washington D.C.

— Two further flights from Newark

Customers tin publication reservations for the caller flights connected United.com.

Contact Richard N. Velotta astatine rvelotta@reviewjournal.com oregon 702-477-3893. Follow @RickVelotta connected Twitter.