by The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - 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 The City Wire staff - February 27, 2014 6:27 am
Thousands of December and January flight cancellations around the country because of winter weather did not have a negative impact on travel out of the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA)….
by The City Wire staff - January 27, 2014 1:51 pm
Results were mixed in 2013 for Arkansas’ regional airports. Enplanements at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) were up for the second consecutive year, while Fort Smith Regional Airport enplanements…
by The City Wire staff - December 9, 2013 5:17 pm
It could be several months – if not well into 2014 – before any changes happen at the Fort Smith Regional Airport or the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) as…
by The City Wire staff - September 23, 2013 1:11 pm
Enplanements at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) were down in August but remain higher for the year, while the opposite was true for the Fort Smith Regional Airport. The…
by The City Wire staff - July 23, 2013 5:07 pm
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) will receive a more than $3.43 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Also, six other Arkansas airports will receive almost $1.5 million…
by The City Wire staff - July 11, 2013 12:50 pm
The Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) is the only one of Arkansas’ three largest commercial airports to report positive year-to-date enplanements. For the first six months of 2013, enplanements are…
by The City Wire staff - June 24, 2013 4:07 pm
Northwest Arkansas business and leisure travelers will soon have another way to see the world as American Airlines is adding non-stop flights from Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport to Los Angeles…
by The City Wire staff - May 2, 2013 2:57 pm
There seems to be some confusion regarding legislation from the U.S. House of Representatives and signed by President Barack Obama that would fund the operations of air traffic control towers….
by The City Wire staff - April 18, 2013 9:26 am
Enplanements at the Fort Smith and Little Rock commercial airports are down in the first quarter of 2013 thanks to declines in American and Delta traffic, but Northwest Arkansas is…
by The City Wire staff - April 16, 2013 12:43 pm
Several ongoing and upcoming activities at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport are designed to position XNA for growth as airport officials work with consultants and legislators to negate the potential…
by The City Wire staff - March 14, 2013 8:47 am
Traffic at the Fort Smith Regional Airport is off to a rough start in 2013 following 2012 activity that resulted in three consecutive years of enplanement gains. Enplanements at the…
by The City Wire staff - February 18, 2013 4:21 pm
The two commercial airports serving Northwest Arkansas and the Fort Smith areas got off to a mixed start in 2013. Enplanements at the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) during January…
by The City Wire staff - January 16, 2013 5:09 pm
The number of travelers out of the regional airports in Fort Smith and Northwest Arkansas (XNA) during 2012 was slightly ahead of 2011 despite a reduction in the systemwide number…
by The City Wire staff - November 13, 2012 9:35 pm
HIGHFILL — Ongoing construction on the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport runway is not expected to negatively impact Thanksgiving travel, airport officials agreed. Barbara Busiek,airport construction project manager, said the current…
by The City Wire staff - October 30, 2012 2:15 pm
BENTONVILLE — As the economy improves and Wal-Mart is returning more products to its shelves, the Northwest Arkansas hospitality and travel industries are starting to feel the change. “April 2012…
by The City Wire staff - September 19, 2012 9:58 pm
Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport is among the airports to be impacted by flight cancellations in recent days by American Airlines as the carrier failed to reach an agreement with the…
by The City Wire staff - September 14, 2012 3:59 pm
The largest single grant that the Northwest Arkansas Arkansas Regional Airport has ever received since opening in 1998 was announced Friday afternoon (Sept. 14). The $19.5 million grant from the…
by The City Wire staff - August 29, 2012 5:37 pm
HIGHFILL—Work on the main runway at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport can move forward as officials learned Wednesday that the airport received the necessary grant for the runway renovation work. “We’re…
