Frontier Airlines will add nonstop flights between Las Vegas and New Orleans for 10 days in February for passengers wanting to attend Mardi Gras.

Daily flights between Harry Reid International Airport and Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport will operate Feb. 12-22. Mardi Gras parades and festivities are scheduled Feb. 17.

The service is part of Frontier’s effort to stimulate travel to New Orleans by adding flights from 22 airports, 12 of which are new routes and 10 existing routes with increased flight frequencies.

Airlines in the past have experimented with new routes with flights driven by special events. American Airlines and Air France have tried special flight routes based around CES in Las Vegas, and Air France will be inaugurating nonstop flights between Paris and L

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