I would suggest ABZ is always one step forward and three steps back.
I've never been a fan of ABZ management, going right back to BAA days. However I'm not without sympathy for them.
It's been a constant theme for NE Scotland especially - use it, or lose it.
Not enough use it - so they lose it.
All very well asking for links here, there, everywhere but when provided if it isn't used, then they cannot moan when the link is axed. Airlines cannot make a profit transporting thin air.
Again it points to the oil industry, and the price of a barrel... & the lack of diversification, even now.
We've lost various competing domestics, plus Gdansk, Frankfurt and now Reykjavik since the start of the year - and I suspect more to follow. Plus reductions in frequencies on others. And we're not even at Brexit point yet!