Newsweek’s ‘Best Small Airport’ honor again goes to HSV
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The Huntsville International Airport was named Best Small Airport for the second consecutive year in Newsweek magazine’s 2025 Reader’s Choice Awards.
Here’s who HSV beat out:
Newsweek’s Best Small Airport
Newsweek compiled more than 20 nominees from a group of experts, with HSV among those considered the best in the country.
The 10 Best Small Airports, according to the Newsweek poll:
- Huntsville International Airport
- Lehigh Valley International Airport (Allentown, Pa.)
- Seattle Paine Field (Everett, Wash.)
- Blue Grass Airport (Lexington, Ky.)
- Santa Barbara Airport
- Manchester-Boston Regional Airport (Manchester, N.H.)
- Piedmont Triad International Airport (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport
- Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport (Charlottesville, Va.)
- Tweed-New Haven Airport (New Haven, Conn.)
This is the second year HSV has topped the list, and three fourth time it has been included in the list.
“We are thrilled voters across Huntsville and the Tennessee Valley selected HSV as the Best Small Airport in the U.S. for the second straight year, and we appreciate the support of our customers in making this happen. Our number one airport has the number one customer base, and that’s what makes us successful.”
Joey Ceci, Chair of the Airport Board of Directors
HSV passenger totals keep increasing
In 2024, HSV set a record for the most passengers in and out of the airport during the year. This year, so far, passenger totals have been higher, which puts the airport on pace to eclipse the record again.
A total of 117,240 passengers flew in and out of the airport in February, which was slightly more than the passenger number from January (117,085), even though the winter months are typically a lower traffic time for the airport.
January and February totals place the passenger traffic totals 7.1 percent above the totals at this time last year.
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