Business is looking up at the Shreveport Regional Airport. Mark Crawford, the airport’s business and development manager, says 2024 delivered a 24-year high in the number of passengers flying in and out Shreveport, with 715,500 for the year. That figure eclipses the pre-covid 20-year high set back in 2019 of 683,497.
Crawford credits more flights in and out of the Shreveport Regional Airport overall for the increase. “We have a new non-stop to Nashville that begins in May. So, that’s a brand new route that we’ve never had non-stop service to, ever, in the airport’s 72-year history. We’re excited about that. It was probably the number one, other than New Orleans, probably the number one request, or next requested I should say, non-stop from here. So that’ll be Sundays and Thursdays on Allegiant. And the fares I was looking last week, a lot of the days the fares are $49 each way. I mean, it’s, it’s, I might just go for the weekend just because it’s a hundred bucks round-trip just to get down there.”
Carriers including American, United and Delta airlines have all increased their number of flights in and out of the Shreveport Regional Airport in recent years. The airport now has at least 21-flights a day.
That translates into roughly 1,500 available seats daily. And Crawford says they are averaging anywhere from 1,200 to 1,400 passengers a day, which leaves them close to capacity right now. “We’re not necessarily getting a bunch of new destinations other than Nashville. We’re getting more capacity to the existing hubs we already have. And so, more capacity means more people and more revenue for us to make more expansion and more improvements like this.”
During our interview, Crawford pointed to a multi-million dollar expansion now underway, along with a million dollars of new furniture airport-wide already installed. Next up, airport leadership is working to have international flights available possibly by the summer of 2026.
The airport is served by four airlines to seven major destinations. Allegiant Airlines provides service to Las Vegas with seasonal flights to Destin & Orlando/Sanford. American Airlines provides service to Charlotte and Dallas/Fort Worth, while Delta Air Lines has flights to Atlanta. And United Airlines provides service to Houston & Denver.
