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Airport in Highfill, Arkansas, USA

Northwest Arkansas National Airport is in Northwest Arkansas It is often referred to by its IATA code, which is incorporated in the airport's logo as "Fly XNA". XNA covers 2,680 acres (1,085 ha) of land and has two parallel 8,800 foot runways. 530,087 in 2009 and 549,195 in 2010. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2019–2023, in which it is categorized as a small hub primary commercial service facility.

XNA opened on November 1, 1998. It replaced Fayetteville's Drake Field as the region's main airport with scheduled airline passenger flights. By the early 1990s, Drake Field had become too small to accommodate the growing traffic that the expanding region was generating.

In 2007, airport officials announced the construction of a new concourse costing between $20 million and $25 million. The new facility, east of the upper concourse, has allowed the airport to increase its number of airplane parking positions from twelve to twenty. Building the new facility took over three years. The airport completed a ticket counter expansion in 2010. The airport has completed a $21 million expansion to the upper level concourse that includes the state's first moving walkway. With the walkway, it is anticipated to take about three minutes to get from security to the last gate. The addition adds and twelve upper level gates to the east side of the airport. The airport was previously known as Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport. It adopted the name Northwest Arkansas National Airport in December 2019. Airport officials attributed the change to perception, saying that the new name would help attract more airline service. On September 23, 2021, it was announced that Board members took the first steps toward adding a new, second concourse. The board voted to have staff negotiate with Fentress Architects for conceptual drawings for the first phase of Concourse B. The design work will cost about $185,000. The new concourse would allow the airport to use its boarding gates more efficiently. The Board are contemplating bringing some gates on Concourse A back into use for certain aircraft sizes and redesigning others. Phase One would include an elevated walkway, a hold room for passengers and a covered walkway out to a ground level loading area onto the aircraft. Construction of the project is estimated to cost roughly $35 million to $50 million. Longer range plans call for building out Concourse B to roughly match Concourse A. At present, XNA is the largest commercial/public/general aviation airport in terms of land area (2,680 acres, 4.2 sq. mi.) in the state of Arkansas.

A proposed access road connecting the airport with the new Springdale Bypass (US 412) was part of a ½ cent statewide sales tax continuation amendment. This was passed by voters on November 3, 2020. As of February 10, 2021, three alternatives were brought to public comment with a live meeting scheduled March 2, 2021.

+ Largest airlines at XNA(January 2023 – December 2023)RankAirlinePassengersShare 1 Envoy Air 622,000 32.16% 2SkyWest Airlines 286,000 14.77% 3Allegiant Air 229,000 11.82% 4American Airlines 171,000 8.85% 5Delta Air Lines 158,000 8.15% –Others 469,000 24.24%