Vegas Loop Surfaces from Underground for Airport Rides
Posted on: January 1, 2026, 06:06h.
Last updated on: January 1, 2026, 06:06h.
Limited airport drop-offs are now available via the Vegas Loop, according to a social media post from Elon Musk’s the Boring Company. This marks the first time the subterranean system, in which Teslas are driven through small tunnels to circumvent street traffic, have been permitted to access airport property.
“Still in the early phases of the program,” a December 30 post on the company’s X site read, “providing a small number of rides each day.”
These airport trips originate only from the Resorts World and Westgate stations for now. For $12 — about one-third the price of a ride share or taxi — each ride delivers passengers through completed portions of the Vegas Loop before taking surface streets to airport terminals 1 or 3. The rides will be offered until the twin tunnels connecting the Vegas Loop to the airport are completed — supposedly in Q1 of this year.
Drop‑offs occur at the departures curb between 10 a.m. and 9 p.m. daily. Airport pickups will not be available until transponders identifying the vehicles to airport security are installed in each vehicle, the Boring Company said, though it didn’t provide a timeline for that. (The pickups will take place in the limousine and shuttle areas outside the Zero levels of Terminals 1 and 3.)
Regulators approved these mixed tunnel/surface trips in late 2025, with the Nevada Transportation Authority capping surface travel at four miles per trip and requiring that each route still include tunnel mileage.
Tunnel Vision
Once the 2.25-mile Airport Connector is complete, airport trips will shift almost entirely underground. The spur will connect to the University Center Loop, now under construction beneath Paradise Road, which will add stations at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas, the Howard Hughes Center, UNLV’s Thomas & Mack Center and the Sphere.
The Vegas Loop has over 10 miles of tunnels dug, with about 4 miles operational — connecting stations at Encore, Resorts World, Westgate, and the Vegas Convention Center. Some routes — such as Encore to Westgate — have used self‑driving Teslas since October, though all currently operate with a human “safety driver” onboard.
The Boring Company plans to eventually connect the entire tourist corridor — from the Allegiant stadium in the south to downtown Las Vegas in the north — via a 68-mile underground web of 104 Vegas Loop stations already approved by Clark County and the City of Las Vegas.
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