Skyairworld, I don't think so! Think about, if you can't make money on these routes in a 30 seater turboprop then there is now way you could make money in a 50 seat jet!
History has shown these routes in QLD can only just support a 19 seat aircraft. In the last 20 years these routes have been operated by Flight West, *********, M@cair and Eastland Air using J32's, Bandit's Metro's, Kingair's and Saab's. The QLD government does not pay enough to operate anything larger than a 19 seat aircraft, if they did Sunstate would be operating them.