Flights include sites such as Oban, the Gulf of Corryvreckan, Tobermory, Castle Stalker and The Bridge over the Atlantic.

[3] The airstrips on the Islands of Coll and Colonsay, also operated by Argyll and Bute council, have benefitted from extensive upgrading to enable them to attain CAA licensing in 2008 to allow for commercial traffic.

[5][6] The site was previously RAF Connel a former Royal Air Force emergency landing ground that was operational between 1942 and 1945 during the Second World War.

There has been controversy about the running of the airport by Argyll and Bute Council, mainly in the letters and news pages of The Oban Times.

The council claimed this reduced the length of the runway meaning fixed wing ambulance flights cannot land.