Northwest Arkansas National Airport

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 >

The city of Highfill is suing the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority, seeking to block it from filing a petition to detach from the city. 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 >

New designs are live on the airport’s website and will be rolled out at the airport in the coming weeks. read more >

Sixty-five commercial, county and municipal airports received the funds. read more >

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

Frontier Airlines announces a twice-weekly direct flight from Northwest Arkansas National Airport to Las Vegas. read more >

Allegiant Air announced it would add two direct flights to Florida destinations 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 >