Hi Rooster,ScotAirways actually picked up the LCY route after Jersey European (as was) dropped it.They had used Bae146 on 3x Mon-Fri & a Sun flight,but downgraded it to a DHC8-200,before axing it due poor loads.
Scottie picked it up with a DO328 on same freq,but didn't work for them either,so it was dropped.
As I remember,fares were sky-high...someone wrote to the P&J after the route was dropped to say that ScotAirways charged even higher fares than Jersey had done!
If somebody picked it up again,they may have more success,with pax increasing at ABZ now -when the route was axed,was post Sept 11 & at a time when pax at ABZ were falling.
My old employer dropped ABZ-STN when KLM came asset-stripping,about 1999.About time someone returned to the route(& I'm NOT talking about Omega!!)
Wouldn't surprise me if Eastern were looking at it,I've heard previous rumours about them looking at ABZ & indeed NCL to LCY (the latter with a Saab 2000).However I also recall EZE mention STN as a possible ABZ route...maybe they'll do BOTH(then again...!)