More than 4.5 million passengers flew to and from Harry Reid International Airport in August, but that total was still 8.5 percent below the number of passengers a year earlier, airport officials said Wednesday.

Clark County Department of Aviation officials also said Spirit Airlines, which had been the airport’s second busiest commercial air carrier for months, saw the number of passengers nearly cut in half from August 2024.

Florida-based Spirit, currently operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, confirmed this week that it is furloughing 1,800 flight attendants in a cost-cutting move. Reid airport’s No. 3 passenger carrier (behind Southwest and Delta) had 409,886 passengers in August, a 46.3 percent decline from a year earlier. Over the past eight months, Spirit traffic has fa

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