Just my thoughts. I can certainly see all Q400 and Alliance F100 flights to MKY switching over to the 717. Mackay is fast becoming more of a business type port with the growth in the Bowen Basin.
Mackay Airport has recently been upgraded, and DJ are putting bigger aircraft on the BNE-MKY route, so MKY will more than likely be a 717 port for QF on the BNE sector.
Maybe the BNE-ROK leg will be shared between Q400's and 717's?. It is a shorter hop to BNE than from MKY, and Rocky does not have the growth that Mackay, or Gladstone for that fact, is experiencing.
I am in Mackay once every month for business, and the investment by large companies setting up in Mackay to cater for the Bowen Basin mines is just amazing.
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