Northwest Arkansas National Airport scored its fifth consecutive month of seeing at least 100,000 passengers.

The September total of 107,160 passengers is a slightly less than the number of boardings in August (108,554 passengers) and significantly less than the summer when the airport saw more than 117,000 passengers in May, June and July.

The airport shared statistics this week about the airport’s performance in September.

Surpassing 100,000 passengers in a month is becoming more the norm at XNA rather than an outlier. The airport topped 100,000 for the first time in June last year, and it exceeded that number 10 times in the next 15 months.

With the school year in session, the low-cost carriers focused on trips to leisure destinations such as New Orleans, Tampa and Orlando were a smaller percentage of the total trips that occurred from XNA. It’s normal for Allegiant Air, Breeze Airways and Frontier Airlines to exceed 20% of all XNA travel in the summertime, but those three accounted for just 10.6% of the September trips.

Much of the XNA push past 100,000 as a routine can be attributed to new flights being offered by Delta Air Lines. Throughout 2023 and into early 2024, Delta never exceeded 15,000 passengers at XNA in a single month.

The numbers started increasing in mid-2024 when Delta began flying more often to Atlanta and Minneapolis/St. Paul, and it later added daily nonstop flights to Detroit (November 2024) and Salt Lake City (February 2025). Delta has topped 20,000 passengers six times in the past seven months.

Delta accounted for 21.6% of all XNA travelers last month. XNA’s busiest carrier — American Airlines — provided flights to 52,582 passengers in September, 49.1% of the airport’s total boardings.