Air France announces latest US route with flights to Las Vegas
October 22, 2025
Air France has revealed its 19th route to the United States as it plans to introduce a direct service between Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) and Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport (LAS) in April next year. This will not be the first time that the carrier flies to the Sin City as it offers charter services each year in January. Sister airline KLM also flies to the airport daily from its Amsterdam Schiphol (AMS) hub.
The new route will operate on the Airbus A350-900 and is a testament to the continued recovery of travel demand to the US. Weakened due to political and economic uncertainty, forward bookings in economy class to the United States from Europe have slowed. While volume is missing, higher-yielding premium traffic has helped mitigate part of the impact.
Regular nonstop flights to Las Vegas coming in April
Air France’s new route to Las Vegas will begin on 15 April. The service is the first new destination that the carrier is introducing for the upcoming summer season. It will operate seasonally according to Las Vegas Airport, with the last flight on 22 October.
The route will operate three times a week, with flights on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. The flight times are as follows.
- Outbound: AF56 departing at 13:40 from Paris and landing at 15:35 in Vegas
- Return: AF57 departing at 17:50 from Las Vegas and landing at 13:05 at CDG the following day
This is not the first time it has operated to Las Vegas. It operates yearly charter flights to the city for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in January. Data from aviation analytics firm Cirium shows the carrier has operated this link since January 2018, together with its partner Delta Air Lines which began a year earlier. Air France had planned a record 13 roundtrip flights to Las Vegas for January 2026, up from seven this year.
Las Vegas is Air France’s 19th destination in the US
The service joins Air France’s growing US network, which has now reached 19 destinations with the LAS addition. Overall in North America, it serves 26 airports.
The carrier’s network to the United States has grown steadily over the last few years. Most recently, it added Orlando (2025), Phoenix (2024), Raleigh-Durham (2023) and Newark (2022). The number of Air France flights to the US has doubled compared to 2015.
Sister airline KLM already flies to Las Vegas from its Amsterdam hub, and has done so since 2019.
Las Vegas is growing in popularity. Competitor and member of the International Airlines Group, Aer Lingus, also launched flights to Las Vegas last year.
Las Vegas has not had regular flights to Charles de Gaulle since 2014
With the exception of charter flights by Delta and Air France, there have not been any services between Charles de Gaulle and Las Vegas since 2014. Now-defunct XL Airways France briefly offered flights with its Airbus A330s between the two cities.
It flew there between May 2010 and August 2014. According to information from the US Department of Transportation, the carrier’s loads averaged 72%. It carried just over 54,000 passengers before it decided to move its flights to Los Angeles instead. At the time, its commercial director, Luc Bereni, explained that due to the airline’s size and scale, “we have to search for simplicity to concentrate on the larger destinations.”
While it has been a while since CDG had regular flights to Las Vegas, LEVEL offered services from Paris Orly between October 2019 and February 2020. La Compagnie also flew a single flight to Las Vegas via Reykjavík, Iceland, for CES in January 2020.
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