by - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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…
by - August 8, 2012 3:30 pm
AMR Corp. faltered in a bid to persuade its largest unions to make concessions in bankruptcy when American Airlines pilots rejected the company’s final contract offer, setting up a showdown…
by - June 5, 2012 9:43 am
HIGHFILL — Officials at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport (XNA) plan to recommend that the airport’s board approve The Harper Co. as the contractor to make much-needed repairs to XNA’s main…
by - April 3, 2012 12:00 pm
Announcements of a new flight, the near opening of the airport’s first sit-down restaurant and work on the runway projects has made life busy at Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. Starting…
by - April 2, 2012 7:11 pm
HIGHFILL — An eatery called a “gastropub” seems the last place you’d want to visit before getting on an airplane. Yet the Smokewood American Grill, coming soon to the Northwest Arkansas…
by - March 23, 2012 12:17 pm
February saw big enplanement increases at the Fort Smith Regional Airport and the Northwest Arkansas Airport (XNA), but only Fort Smith has a year-to-date increase. February enplanements at the Fort…
by - February 22, 2012 2:59 pm
Forecasting what will happen in the airline industry is about as unpredictable as forecasting the weather. “Going forward, it looks like there’s good news and bad news,” said Steve Lott,…
by - February 14, 2012 3:41 pm
January enplanements at the Fort Smith Regional Airport were up more than 4%, continuing a trend of traffic improvements during 2011. The story is different at the Northwest Arkansas Regional…
by - February 13, 2012 11:10 am
FAYETTEVILLE – Brad Audrain came to the taxi business by way of Dickson Street. As a University of Arkansas student, he or friends sometimes needed a ride away from the…
by - February 7, 2012 7:20 am
Airport officials in Northwest Arkansas and Fort Smith sighed in relief Monday evening as a long-awaited funding bill for the Federal Aviation Administration received Senate approval. The bill authorizes $63.4…
by - February 3, 2012 8:06 pm
It’s a game of “wait and see” for the Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport as officials hope for news on several fronts, with the biggest being a federal funding bill expected…
