 In 2017 Cobham Aviation Services Australia Boeing 717 fleet began ceasing daily flights to the regional town due to higher demands in longer domestic route and also due to passenger numbers reducing after the mining boom from 2012-2016, because this Sunstate Airlines and Qantaslink had to increase operations to Gladstone to 6 daily flights.After this Cobham only flew in to fill in for any Q400 flights that had issues.Though rumour have it that they might be making a few returns during 2019 due to an increased number of jobs becoming available in the mining industry.