Great-circle route DEN ↔ LAS. Faint dots are other airports, for geographic context. Download this map — free to reuse with a link back to this page.
Frequencies below are per direction, from our most recent schedule sample. The two directions are not identical — that is normal on scheduled routes.
| Direction | Frequency | Days | Airlines |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEN → LAS Denver to Las Vegas |
128/wk | Daily | Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines |
| LAS → DEN Las Vegas to Denver |
127/wk | Daily | Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines |
Where a direction shows “—” we track it as an operating nonstop but hold no schedule sample for it — we would rather show nothing than guess.
In 2025, airlines reported 1,988,850 passengers on 14,506 flights between DEN and LAS — about 5,452 a day — filling 77% of the 2,589,475 seats flown. Southwest Airlines Co. carried the most passengers (40%).
Source: US DOT T-100 segment reports — actual airline-reported traffic, scheduled service only, both directions combined. Cargo and charter flights excluded.
3 airlines fly the DEN–LAS nonstop, including Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines.
Recent scheduled departures on this route have used the Boeing 737, Airbus A320, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-900 and 2 other types.
Aircraft assignments change by season and by time of day.
The distance between Denver International Airport and McCarran International Airport is 627 miles, or 1,009 kilometres.
| Great-circle distance | 627 mi |
| Kilometres | 1,009 km |
| Nautical miles | 545 nmi |
Measured airport to airport. The actual track is longer — aircraft follow airways, avoid restricted airspace and route around weather.
Yes. 3 airlines fly the route nonstop, with about 255 departures a week across both directions. The route is in our live nonstop dataset, last seeded 2026-07-07.
About 1h 51m in the air. That is a great-circle estimate from the 627-mile distance, not a scheduled block time — an airline's published time will differ by roughly 15 to 45 minutes depending on routing, winds and taxi.
About 128 a week from Denver to Las Vegas and 127 a week from Las Vegas to Denver, from our most recent schedule sample.
Frontier Airlines, Southwest Airlines, United Airlines.
In 2025, airlines reported 1,988,850 passengers on 14,506 scheduled flights between DEN and LAS — about 5,452 a day — filling 77% of the seats flown. Source: US DOT T-100 segment reports, both directions combined.
Recent scheduled departures have used the Boeing 737, Airbus A320, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-900. Assignments change by season and by time of day.
