Qantas does Vegas direct

[Spacetravel]

I hope the service is increased to full year round when they have more aircraft,, I'd love this service I visit Vegas in the NH summer time regularly.

Also I just noticed there is a Syd > Las sale right now $1000 return in economy.

 

[Flyfrequently]

MH via KUL?

QF to SIN then Vietnam Airlines @AIRwin also

 

[Aussie_flyer]

Well done on making that post. Where are the others? 'Lock the thread' ... 'fake news'. Delicious.

I said lock the thread in regards to the hysteria about the USA , which you were part of right? It wasn't that LAS was not going to happen. Think you are confused

 

[Quickstatus]

Are they even chasing the "winter traffic" (skiing) or just seasonal holiday traffic?

I'd suggest the "winter" traffic would be greater than the "holiday" Vegas traffic, given the large numbers of Aussies in the ski resorts in US and Canada.. They should be chasing the winter traffic - lots are travelling DL and UA. I think the reason Vegas is beckoning is because of the significant drop in visitor numbers and while winter traffic has also pivoted to some extent to Japan and Korea, the winter destinations remain strong.

 

[jrfsp]

My North American wish list would be daily to Vancouver or out of left field Calgary given the codeshare arrangement with WestJet. Could be a great option given how poor inter Canada connections are from YVR. With the AUD and CAD almost parity perhaps demand will pick up.

QF flew daily YVR for a short period earlier this year, but agree WS connections are pretty poor especially compared to ACs network / frequency (their arrival time into YVR helps too)

 

[levelnine]

I guess you're missing the core concept that those pax are all travelling at the same time for the single weekend event. +/- a week either side, any other pax will be coming in via LAX or other ports and/or other airlines.

Players and club staff don't fly on the scheduled services, they didn't even fly on the QF chartered services, the clubs charter their own aircraft.

As someone who's actually been to an NRL Vegas game and travels to Vegas multiple times a year I'll just leave you to argue with yourself as blind freddy can see QF needs more than the NRL to make this route a success.

Next time you go to one of those NRL games in Vegas, I encourage you to speak to some other people — anyone really. You'll come across people who have been in the LV region for multiple weeks, as I did when I was on a February flight to SFO last year and surrounded by people heading to the game 2.5+ weeks ahead of the match.

If you knew anything about how seasonal routes operate, you'd know they don't operate them for just the time period in which there is the most demand for the particular attraction on the other end.

You can't seem to stick to a single (incorrect) theory about what's driving this business decision.

First, you said it was NYE, CES, general tourism. That's wrong.

Second, you said it was Vegas handing out large sums of cash to Qantas. That's wrong.

Third, you said it was a speculative play to build up bilateral tourism between Sydney and Las Vegas....

Anymore you'd like to throw out?

 

[levelnine]

And for anyone who still thinks it could be general tourism to Las Vegas that's driving Qantas' decision rather than the NRL (which increased its Australian attendance by 42% in 2025), here's what Fairfax reported earlier this week:

'Rugby league is endeavouring to cash in on Las Vegas as the city endures a marked decline in tourism.

Visitor numbers last year fell 7.5 per cent from 2024, the most significant slide since records were first kept in 1970 aside from during the pandemic.'

Qantas would definitely decide to launch a non-stop route to capture the general tourist market of a region experiencing its worse decline on record lol.

 

[RooFlyer]

I said lock the thread in regards to the hysteria about the USA , which you were part of right? It wasn't that LAS was not going to happen. Think you are confused

We’ll, to be fair, your entire comment was:

yep, just lock it I'd say

The absolute didn’t indicate any qualification . But in any case I’d say more hyperbole rather than hysteria.

 

[justinbrett]

Next time you go to one of those NRL games in Vegas, I encourage you to speak to some other people — anyone really. You'll come across people who have been in the LV region for multiple weeks, as I did when I was on a February flight to SFO last year and surrounded by people heading to the game 2.5+ weeks ahead of the match.

If you knew anything about how seasonal routes operate, you'd know they don't operate them for just the time period in which there is the most demand for the particular attraction on the other end.

You can't seem to stick to a single (incorrect) theory about what's driving this business decision.

First, you said it was NYE, CES, general tourism. That's wrong.

Second, you said it was Vegas handing out large sums of cash to Qantas. That's wrong.

Third, you said it was a speculative play to build up bilateral tourism between Sydney and Las Vegas....

Anymore you'd like to throw out?

Lol, “wrong” from someone who called it a tournament. Clearly you have no idea, and my points are all in the QF PR. Dec is not Feb, 2.5 weeks is not 8,

250K Aussies a year is more than 20K a month on average, clearly a lot of general tourists going in the peak Christmas holiday season.

Almost certainly these two factors moreso than anything else. I would have thought it's not that hard to understand?

A seasonal flight at a time of the year when US carriers have multiple seasonal flights to Australia, it's not hard to comprehend QF doing one as well.

Exactly.