Delayed Start
Air Omega reservations were allegedly still taking January flight bookings for ABZ to STN on 30th December, agencies at ABZ were allegedly geared up to start operations on 8th Jan until the start was suspended at the last minute.
Rumour has it that the sub charter operator that was lined up to operate on Omegas behalf starting on 8th January was unable to proceed in January for reasons not disclosed. It is not clear if the operator in February will be the same sub charter company.
Hopefully the startup in February will proceed more smoothly, however the ABZ-LON (LHR, LTN, STN, LGW) market is likely to be much oversubscribed once BMI start competing with BA on the LHR route.
Current Omega publicity is offering a 3 class cabin (First, Business, Economy) which seems like it could be a little OTT for the market!
Good luck to Omega and all the other LON routes and operators, I doubt very much that the market in the Aberdeen area can be grown much and that all that will happen is a dilution of the existing market, much as seen with Eastern and BMI on the ABZ-NWI route.
Who will still be there in a year out of BA / BMI / EasyJet / Omega remains to be seen.