The airport is non-towered, but has a mandatory frequency linked remotely to the flight service station (FSS) located in Mont-Joli.

For this reason, most small (i.e. unpressurized) aircraft prefer to approach from the east, thereby avoiding the steep descent over the high hills to the west.

The airport added a terminal building in 1972, and a hangar and flight service station in 1974.

The hangar was destroyed by a fire in 1978 and rebuilt in 1979; the flight service station has subsequently been closed.

Air Canada, the only airline that was operating scheduled passenger flights from the airport, indefinitely suspended its routes to Gaspé Airport in June 2020 due to the financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada.