The three airports owned and operated by Queensland Airports Limited at Gold Coast, Townsville and Mount Isa recorded more than 7 million passenger movements for the 2010/11 financial year. This is an increase of 5.5% over the previous year and the first time the QAL Group has exceeded 7 million passengers.

In a difficult period, all three airports experienced year on year growth. Gold Coast Airport recorded more than 5.4 million passengers (+5.3%), Mount Isa recorded more than 217,000 passengers (+19.5%) and Townsville recorded more than 1.67 million passengers (+4.6%).