Why are people surprised at lack of uptake for new holiday routes. The demand and numbers of passengers is simply not here.
70% of Scotlands population reside in the Central belt. At a push 5% reside in Aberdeenshire so already there is a massive difference in demand for air travel based purely on numbers of people living in the locality.
Given the choice and lower price available for holiday flights from GLA and EDI there are a significant number of people travelling to fly from these airports from Aberdeenshire but I would hazard a guess at 0 passengers doing the reverse from the Central belt.
How many people do you think want to travel to Kristiansund and Brussels daily to make this kind of route viable?
Take away the oil related business from ABZ and I'm afraid there is very little remaining.