The airport is serviced twice daily by Virgin Australia who utilise 104-seat Embraer 190s to Sydney-they are the only airline to operate jet services to the airport; QantasLink who utilise a combination of 50 seat Dash 8-300s and 74 seat Dash 8-400s to Sydney; Regional Express (REX) who utilise 36 seat Saab 340s on services to Sydney and Melbourne and Brindabella Airlines who utilise 19 seat Metroliners to Canberra.
QantasLink was the only scheduled operator at the time with daily flights to Brisbane, with some services operating via Emerald.
As of March 2008, QantasLink was scheduled to operate about 38 return services per week (i.e. about 76 aircraft movements) between Gladstone and Brisbane using Dash 8 aircraft with seating from 50 to 74 passengers.
The airport averages 65 QantasLink flights each week, most of these are Dash-8 Q400 aircraft.