 The municipality had ambitions to upgrade the airport to a higher standard, which would allow it to serve charter aircraft weighing more than and with more than nine passengers.The plans were abandoned after 11 neighboring municipalities rejected giving grants for the necessary technical upgrades.Notodden Municipality instead started a program to increase the popularity of the airport by targeting companies in the neighboring municipality of Kongsberg to encourage use of the airport, instead of going to Oslo Airport, Gardermoen and Sandefjord Airport, Torp.