Northwest Arkansas National Airport scored another stellar month, seeing more than 76,000 passengers board flights in February.

The new numbers, made public by XNA’s administrators and coming in a month that rarely results in big statistics, show the airport had its best February in its 27 years with 76,719 people boarding flights. The previous best was 75,011 in February 2024.

That high performance last month occurred even though one of its carriers — Frontier Airlines — didn’t fly at all. Frontier took the same approach in February 2024.

The airline resumed flights this month to its home city of Denver operating on Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays. Frontier is scheduled to continue flying from XNA three times a week for the next several months.

While it would be unusual for a legacy carrier such as American Airlines, United Airlines or Delta Air Lines to pause its schedule for weeks at a time, it’s not strange for some low-cost carriers to do it. Breeze Airways, for example, often pauses its roundtrips from XNA to New Orleans in September and again in January.

Without Frontier in the air last month, the legacy carriers dominated more than they usually do. Low-cost carriers Allegiant Air and Breeze made up just 10% of total departures, though that percentage is expected to rise above 20% in the peak summer months when Allegiant, Frontier and Breeze expand their schedules.

American Airlines accounted for 53% of all departing passengers in February, followed by United Airlines at 19%.