[1] In the year ending September 18, 2022, the airport had 43,000 aircraft operations, average 118 per day: 97% general aviation, 1% air taxi and 1% military.

[1] The airfield provided contract glider training to the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1943.

The glider training mission was taken over by I Troop Carrier Command, and the airport was used as an auxiliary airfield until the end of the war.

Goodland first received scheduled airline service in the early 1930s by United States Airways, which flew a Metal Aircraft Flamingo on an airmail route between Denver and Kansas City, stopping at Goodland, Salina, and Topeka, Kansas.

Frontier ended service in 1976–77; Air Midwest began flying Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners on the same routes.