Newport News-Williamsburg Airport (IATA: PHF, ICAO: KPHF, FAA LID: PHF) is in Newport News, Virginia, United States, and serves the Hampton Roads area along with Norfolk International Airport in Norfolk.

An upgraded traffic control tower was built and Runway 6–24 was extended to 5,000 feet (1,500 m) in 1952; a new passenger terminal opened in 1955.

The airport currently covers 1,800 acres (7.3 km2), most of it in the city of Newport News and nearly half of the airfield with runways 20 and 25 in York County.

[7][8][9][10] The airport led the nation in air service decline after deregulation and was facing severe financial difficulty.

[12] Blankenship implemented a strategic plan of developing a business park named Patrick Henry Commerce Center[13] and a marketing campaign to attract air carriers.

[15] On December 19, 1980, the Daily Press reported a committee authorized by the PAC recommended that the airport change its name to "Newport News/Williamsburg International" to then-Executive Director Michael White.

In 1985 USAir (later renamed US Airways) added McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 and British Aircraft Corporation BAC One-Eleven jets from Pittsburgh and Washington, DC Dulles Airport and by late 1989 these flights were the only jet service at the airport.

In 1999, AirTran was serving the airport with four daily nonstop flights from Atlanta operated with McDonnell Douglas DC-9-30 jets.

Frontier Airlines began nonstop service from Newport News in 2010 as the airport was finishing a $23 million renovation.

On February 4, 2012, PAC announced that Frontier would resume year-round flights operating daily effective May 22 through Labor Day that year.

A local contractor donated $50,000 worth of labor and materials to expand the airport's USO office in 2010, doubling it in size to better serve military personnel.

Elite Airways announced intention to begin service with flights from PHF to Myrtle Beach, SC in 2018, but scrapped the plans due to doubts and concerns about airport operations following the failure of a reincarnation of People Express Airlines (2010s) (which was based in Newport News and attempted to operate a small hub at the airport with Boeing 737-400 jets) and multiple investigations into the airport as well as a perceived lack of passenger demand.

Rick and Atlantic provide flight instruction schools, and jet fuel services to private and commercial airplanes.

As Orion Air Group opened a new world headquarters 40,000-square-foot (3,700 m2) facility which will employ 100 people; they are already planning an additional 70,000-square-foot (6,500 m2) expansion.

Also sharing the original terminal building is a local squadron of the Civil Air Patrol, which maintains several CAP airplanes at the airport.

Newport News–Williamsburg is the first airport in the nation to undergo a sustainability project, to incorporate green technology in every facet of operations.

[citation needed] In January 2014, Concourse A began to add a Federal Inspection Station and fully implement a U.S. Customs processing facility.

In 2020, additional administrative staff members were laid off from positions due to declining revenue and impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic.

A June 2024 report recommended a transition away from commercial air service and reorienting efforts to attracting advanced aerospace research and development facilities.