One TSA, 12 connected gates, named free Wi-Fi, and a $10 Economy lot two miles from downtown — traded against no passenger lounge, no fixed-route bus, and official pages that still do not map water fillers.
Ground access7.4
Reliability6.8
Lounges2.0
How the score works
An editorial 0–10 score. The overall is exactly the weighted sum of six traveler categories — not a Google rating and not a poll.
25%Ease of use — Wayfinding, security wait, and layout.
20%Comfort & amenities — Seating, Wi-Fi, cleanliness, and quiet.
15%Food & retail — Food and retail quality and variety.
15%Ground access — Transit, taxi, and parking to the city.
15%Reliability — Delays, cancellations, and weather resilience.
One TSA, 12 connected gates, named free Wi-Fi, and a $10 Economy lot two miles from downtown — traded against no passenger lounge, no fixed-route bus, and official pages that still do not map water fillers.
No passenger lounge — aggregator Club LIT / Airssist copy is fiction
No fixed-route bus; METRO Connect stops at 20:00 weekdays / 17:00 weekends
Official pages do not map water fillers or print a taxi tariff
STL is gone from the live destination cards; AirNav still names the former interim director
Lounges · 10%
Worth-it density and access quality.
2.0
One civil passenger terminal at **1 Airport Road, Little Rock, AR 72202** (official site). AirNav/FAA still print **1 Airport Drive**. Official map: **Gates 1–12**, ticketing / TSA / Customer Care upstairs, bags / rentals / ground transport downstairs. **One TSA**, then a single sterile concourse — wrong gate is a walk, not a reclear. Main phone **(501) 900-7800**. Customer Care **(501) 375-1509**.
Official FAQ (12 Sep 2026), six names: **Allegiant, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United**. Destinations page: **more than 80 daily flights**. Live official destination cards: ATL, BNA, CLT, DAL, DCA, DEN, DFW, IAH, LAS, LGA, MCO (NEW), MIA (Saturdays only), ORD, PHX (NEW; daily AA, Southwest Saturdays 11/21, 11/28, 12/19, 12/26, 1/2/27), PIE, SFB, SLC (homepage “Returns September 10”), VPS. ACFR 31 Dec 2025 still listed **STL at 2.0 daily** — **STL is not on the live cards**. **No scheduled international passenger airline.** AirNav “customs landing rights” is field CBP / cargo-GA, not a passenger FIS.
**No passenger lounge.** Official dine-and-shop and the airport map have none. Live Priority Pass / Escape lists do not include LIT. Aggregator **“The Club LIT”** and generic **Airssist Executive Lounge** copy are fiction. Sleeping-in-Airports **LRF** is Little Rock Air Force Base — not this field.
Three runways: **4L/22R 8,273×150**, **4R/22L 8,251×150**, **18/36 6,224×150** (AirNav; ACFR: two parallel commercial runways plus a third used mainly for GA). Owner **City of Little Rock**; operator **Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission**. Executive director **Suzanne Peyton** since **1 Jan 2026**. AirNav still names **David Tipton** as manager — he is finance / was interim ED. Civil field only. **Do not create a second airport for KLIT or LRF (Little Rock AFB, ~12 nm N).** North Little Rock Municipal is **ORK**.
`lib/airports.json`: IATA **LIT**, ICAO **KLIT**, 34.730053, −92.222975, America/Chicago. AirNav elev **266 ft**, 2 mi E of Little Rock. Present terminal originally **1972**. ACFR: **over 2,200 acres**, **3,576** parking spaces, **12 gates**, small-hub. Official branding **Clinton National Airport** / clintonairport.com.
No passenger lounge — aggregator Club LIT / Airssist copy is fiction
No fixed-route bus; METRO Connect stops at 20:00 weekdays / 17:00 weekends
Official pages do not map water fillers or print a taxi tariff
STL is gone from the live destination cards; AirNav still names the former interim director
Lounges · 10%
Worth-it density and access quality.
2.0
One civil passenger terminal at **1 Airport Road, Little Rock, AR 72202** (official site). AirNav/FAA still print **1 Airport Drive**. Official map: **Gates 1–12**, ticketing / TSA / Customer Care upstairs, bags / rentals / ground transport downstairs. **One TSA**, then a single sterile concourse — wrong gate is a walk, not a reclear. Main phone **(501) 900-7800**. Customer Care **(501) 375-1509**.
Official FAQ (12 Sep 2026), six names: **Allegiant, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United**. Destinations page: **more than 80 daily flights**. Live official destination cards: ATL, BNA, CLT, DAL, DCA, DEN, DFW, IAH, LAS, LGA, MCO (NEW), MIA (Saturdays only), ORD, PHX (NEW; daily AA, Southwest Saturdays 11/21, 11/28, 12/19, 12/26, 1/2/27), PIE, SFB, SLC (homepage “Returns September 10”), VPS. ACFR 31 Dec 2025 still listed **STL at 2.0 daily** — **STL is not on the live cards**. **No scheduled international passenger airline.** AirNav “customs landing rights” is field CBP / cargo-GA, not a passenger FIS.
**No passenger lounge.** Official dine-and-shop and the airport map have none. Live Priority Pass / Escape lists do not include LIT. Aggregator **“The Club LIT”** and generic **Airssist Executive Lounge** copy are fiction. Sleeping-in-Airports **LRF** is Little Rock Air Force Base — not this field.
Three runways: **4L/22R 8,273×150**, **4R/22L 8,251×150**, **18/36 6,224×150** (AirNav; ACFR: two parallel commercial runways plus a third used mainly for GA). Owner **City of Little Rock**; operator **Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission**. Executive director **Suzanne Peyton** since **1 Jan 2026**. AirNav still names **David Tipton** as manager — he is finance / was interim ED. Civil field only. **Do not create a second airport for KLIT or LRF (Little Rock AFB, ~12 nm N).** North Little Rock Municipal is **ORK**.
`lib/airports.json`: IATA **LIT**, ICAO **KLIT**, 34.730053, −92.222975, America/Chicago. AirNav elev **266 ft**, 2 mi E of Little Rock. Present terminal originally **1972**. ACFR: **over 2,200 acres**, **3,576** parking spaces, **12 gates**, small-hub. Official branding **Clinton National Airport** / clintonairport.com.
No passenger lounge — aggregator Club LIT / Airssist copy is fiction
No fixed-route bus; METRO Connect stops at 20:00 weekdays / 17:00 weekends
Official pages do not map water fillers or print a taxi tariff
STL is gone from the live destination cards; AirNav still names the former interim director
Lounges · 10%
Worth-it density and access quality.
2.0
One civil passenger terminal at **1 Airport Road, Little Rock, AR 72202** (official site). AirNav/FAA still print **1 Airport Drive**. Official map: **Gates 1–12**, ticketing / TSA / Customer Care upstairs, bags / rentals / ground transport downstairs. **One TSA**, then a single sterile concourse — wrong gate is a walk, not a reclear. Main phone **(501) 900-7800**. Customer Care **(501) 375-1509**.
Official FAQ (12 Sep 2026), six names: **Allegiant, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United**. Destinations page: **more than 80 daily flights**. Live official destination cards: ATL, BNA, CLT, DAL, DCA, DEN, DFW, IAH, LAS, LGA, MCO (NEW), MIA (Saturdays only), ORD, PHX (NEW; daily AA, Southwest Saturdays 11/21, 11/28, 12/19, 12/26, 1/2/27), PIE, SFB, SLC (homepage “Returns September 10”), VPS. ACFR 31 Dec 2025 still listed **STL at 2.0 daily** — **STL is not on the live cards**. **No scheduled international passenger airline.** AirNav “customs landing rights” is field CBP / cargo-GA, not a passenger FIS.
**No passenger lounge.** Official dine-and-shop and the airport map have none. Live Priority Pass / Escape lists do not include LIT. Aggregator **“The Club LIT”** and generic **Airssist Executive Lounge** copy are fiction. Sleeping-in-Airports **LRF** is Little Rock Air Force Base — not this field.
Three runways: **4L/22R 8,273×150**, **4R/22L 8,251×150**, **18/36 6,224×150** (AirNav; ACFR: two parallel commercial runways plus a third used mainly for GA). Owner **City of Little Rock**; operator **Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission**. Executive director **Suzanne Peyton** since **1 Jan 2026**. AirNav still names **David Tipton** as manager — he is finance / was interim ED. Civil field only. **Do not create a second airport for KLIT or LRF (Little Rock AFB, ~12 nm N).** North Little Rock Municipal is **ORK**.
`lib/airports.json`: IATA **LIT**, ICAO **KLIT**, 34.730053, −92.222975, America/Chicago. AirNav elev **266 ft**, 2 mi E of Little Rock. Present terminal originally **1972**. ACFR: **over 2,200 acres**, **3,576** parking spaces, **12 gates**, small-hub. Official branding **Clinton National Airport** / clintonairport.com.
No airline club and no pay-in lounge on the official map or dine-and-shop list. Priority Pass / Escape do not list LIT. “The Club LIT” is fiction. Customer Care is a help desk across from Riverbend, not a lounge.
No passenger lounge — aggregator Club LIT / Airssist copy is fiction
No fixed-route bus; METRO Connect stops at 20:00 weekdays / 17:00 weekends
Official pages do not map water fillers or print a taxi tariff
STL is gone from the live destination cards; AirNav still names the former interim director
Lounges · 10%
Worth-it density and access quality.
2.0
One civil passenger terminal at **1 Airport Road, Little Rock, AR 72202** (official site). AirNav/FAA still print **1 Airport Drive**. Official map: **Gates 1–12**, ticketing / TSA / Customer Care upstairs, bags / rentals / ground transport downstairs. **One TSA**, then a single sterile concourse — wrong gate is a walk, not a reclear. Main phone **(501) 900-7800**. Customer Care **(501) 375-1509**.
Official FAQ (12 Sep 2026), six names: **Allegiant, American, Delta, Frontier, Southwest, United**. Destinations page: **more than 80 daily flights**. Live official destination cards: ATL, BNA, CLT, DAL, DCA, DEN, DFW, IAH, LAS, LGA, MCO (NEW), MIA (Saturdays only), ORD, PHX (NEW; daily AA, Southwest Saturdays 11/21, 11/28, 12/19, 12/26, 1/2/27), PIE, SFB, SLC (homepage “Returns September 10”), VPS. ACFR 31 Dec 2025 still listed **STL at 2.0 daily** — **STL is not on the live cards**. **No scheduled international passenger airline.** AirNav “customs landing rights” is field CBP / cargo-GA, not a passenger FIS.
**No passenger lounge.** Official dine-and-shop and the airport map have none. Live Priority Pass / Escape lists do not include LIT. Aggregator **“The Club LIT”** and generic **Airssist Executive Lounge** copy are fiction. Sleeping-in-Airports **LRF** is Little Rock Air Force Base — not this field.
Three runways: **4L/22R 8,273×150**, **4R/22L 8,251×150**, **18/36 6,224×150** (AirNav; ACFR: two parallel commercial runways plus a third used mainly for GA). Owner **City of Little Rock**; operator **Little Rock Municipal Airport Commission**. Executive director **Suzanne Peyton** since **1 Jan 2026**. AirNav still names **David Tipton** as manager — he is finance / was interim ED. Civil field only. **Do not create a second airport for KLIT or LRF (Little Rock AFB, ~12 nm N).** North Little Rock Municipal is **ORK**.
`lib/airports.json`: IATA **LIT**, ICAO **KLIT**, 34.730053, −92.222975, America/Chicago. AirNav elev **266 ft**, 2 mi E of Little Rock. Present terminal originally **1972**. ACFR: **over 2,200 acres**, **3,576** parking spaces, **12 gates**, small-hub. Official branding **Clinton National Airport** / clintonairport.com.
No airline club and no pay-in lounge on the official map or dine-and-shop list. Priority Pass / Escape do not list LIT. “The Club LIT” is fiction. Customer Care is a help desk across from Riverbend, not a lounge.