by - March 28, 2017 1:40 pm
Traffic out of the Fort Smith Regional Airport is off to a good start in 2017, with numbers up almost 14% year-to-date and building upon a 2016 that saw marginal…
by - August 8, 2016 11:00 am
Thousands of travelers on Delta Airlines’ inbound and outbound flights in Little Rock, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) and Fort Smith faced uncertainty and were left scrambling to find other…
by - April 5, 2016 3:15 pm
Editor’s note: This report is a component of the Arkansas Transportation Report, a monthly compilation of data and news regarding the trucking, railroad, airline, and river barge industries. –––––––––––––––––––– The…
by - February 23, 2016 12:16 pm
Editor’s note: This story is a component of The Compass Report. The quarterly Compass Report is managed by Talk Business & Politics, and sponsored by Arvest Bank. Supporting sponsors of…
by - January 6, 2016 5:35 pm
Officials with Southwest Airlines and the Clinton National Airport gathered to celebrate the first day of renewed nonstop flights between Little Rock and St. Louis. Southwest previously discontinued nonstop service…
by - December 17, 2015 1:37 pm
The air travel picture is mixed for Arkansas’s three largest airports. Little Rock National, Arkansas’s largest commercial airline, and Fort Smith are down in passengers for the year. The Northwest…
by - September 28, 2015 12:48 pm
Air travel at Arkansas’ three largest commercial airports continued to slow in August, the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) the only airport to post a year-to-date gain. However, spending nationwide…
by - August 17, 2015 6:48 pm
Air travel is slowing in Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith area, with officials at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) hopeful that a new flight to San Francisco will…
by - July 29, 2015 6:24 pm
Business and tourism travel through Arkansas’ three largest commercial airports slowed in June, with only one of the three airports posting a positive enplanement number for the month. However, two…
by - June 23, 2015 4:15 pm
The traveling public pulled back in May compared to May 2014, with enplanements down at Arkansas’ three largest commercial airports. Of the three airports, only the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport…
by - May 20, 2015 6:07 pm
Airport traffic in Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith is back on a positive track in April after a March decline. However, traffic at the Bill & Hillary Clinton National Airport…
by - April 27, 2015 5:52 pm
For the first time in more than two years, monthly enplanements posted a decline at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA), with enplanements also seeing a March decline at the…
by - March 23, 2015 2:31 pm
Airline travel remains popular in Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith area, with enplanements for the first two months of 2015 up 6.89% and 2.87%, respectively, at the two commercial…
by - February 16, 2015 1:06 pm
Activity at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) and the Fort Smith Regional Airport continued the gains posted in 2014, with January enplanements up at the two commercial airports. XNA…
by - January 19, 2015 1:13 pm
Improved economic conditions and stable air fare rates in 2014 helped the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) set a new enplanement record, and helped the Fort Smith Regional Airport post…
by - December 16, 2014 5:43 pm
Enplanement traffic at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) likely broke a new annual enplanement record on Dec. 5, and could end the year with around 640,000 enplanements. Traffic also…
by - November 17, 2014 2:39 pm
Enplanement growth continues to be impressive in Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith commercial airports, with possibly by early December the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) breaking an enplanement record that…
by - October 20, 2014 4:23 pm
The healthy pace of traffic growth at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport and the Fort Smith Regional Airport did not slow in September, with XNA enplanements up almost 14% and Fort…
by - September 23, 2014 5:41 pm
Scott Van Laningham is “surprised” at the double-digit enplanement growth at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA). He didn’t think the pace of growth would return so soon. The pace…
by - August 26, 2014 7:19 am
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) is on track to push past 600,000 annual enplanements, and the Fort Smith Regional Airport may post more than 90,000 enplanements for the first…
