Aaron Burkes

Northwest Arkansas National Airport is in nonstop expansion mode, with $400 million in upgrades planned over the next five years to keep pace with record-breaking passenger growth. read more >

XNA certainly benefits from being the airport in the center of the continuously growing northwest Arkansas region, but officials have worked diligently to make the airport more attractive to both airlines and passengers. read more >

A unanimous vote of the 14-member Airport Authority Board on Sept. 19 finalized the airport's split from the city of Highfill. read more >

The vote came after failed negotiations between the airport’s authority board and Highfill officials to reach an interlocal agreement between the two entities. read more >

The 94th General Assembly this month approved Senate Bill 414, giving the 14-person Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority the ability to detach the airport from the small city in Benton County by a two-thirds vote. read more >

Leaders at the Northwest Arkansas National Airport say they’re on course, welcoming back business travelers, refocusing on long-planned capital improvements and acquiring land for expansion. read more >

Allegiant Air announces it will add a direct flight to Houston from Northwest Arkansas National Airport. read more >

Breeze Airways will add direct flights from Northwest Arkansas National Airport this summer. read more >

The state’s two major airports are starting to take flight again after a long year of mostly empty planes and terminals. read more >

There’s nothing like a pandemic to throw a monkey wrench into an airport’s long-range planning. read more >

The COVID-19 pandemic has caused air travel to plunge, and Arkansas’ two major airports have not been immune. XNA, in Highfill, has seen a passenger reduction of about 96%, and Little Rock’s Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport has been hit with a 95% decrease. read more >

Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport CEO Aaron Burkes said RFPs — request for proposals — were recently sent out for a new website that will be paired with a new, more aggressive marketing strategy read more >

The Northwest Arkansas Council’s new FareFlightNWA program makes the argument to travelers that flying out of Northwest Arkansas Airport might not be as terrible financially as it would seem. read more >

Aaron Burkes, the CEO of Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, says the addition of Frontier Airlines is a huge development for the region. read more >

Aaron Burkes of Bentonville has been named to the Transportation Industry Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. read more >

Aaron Burkes was named Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport’s new CEO and executive director in late September and will start work on Nov. 1. read more >

Cheryl Schluterman, vice president for finance and administration at the Arkansas Development Finance Authority, has been named interim president of the ADFA, effective immediately. read more >

Gov. Asa Hutchinson wants former Republican lawmaker Aaron Burkes to be the next head of the Arkansas Development Finance Authority. Hutchinson on Monday submitted Burke's name to the ADFA board. Gene Eagle currently serves as ADFA president. read more >