On 20 June 1986, Coast Aero Center was awarded the concession for flying from Stavanger to Geilo Airport, Dagali until 1991.

[1] The ridership from Geilo turned out to be insufficient to make a profit, and both Coast Aero Center and Norving terminated their routes.

[3] Construction of a runway expansion from 1,300 to 1,800 metres (4,300 to 5,900 ft) was started in 1988, allowing the airport to be served by jet aircraft in international charter traffic.

There were less than 1,000 passengers annually, and the scheduled traffic with Coast Air cost the municipalities NOK 1 million per year.

The company Norcharter had been created by Hol and Nore og Uvdal, along with private investors, but it failed to increase ridership, despite spending NOK 8 million on marketing the region and the airport.

[8] Following Norway's entry into the Schengen Agreement in 2000, more money had to be invested in the airport to rebuild it to meet immigration requirements.