Aberdeen airport to host business summit - Transport - Scotsman.com
Will anything come of it? Unlikely, but it's good to talk.
Supply & demand. No (insufficient) demand usually leads to no supply.
Aberdeen is just too far out of the way in the eyes of many airlines, & whilst it is commercially a successful region, there is insufficient demand to lay on services to everywhere that the business community would want. Ditto flights to the sun, although the amount of people that travel from here to fly off to the sun from other airports suggests more could be done here - Flyglobespan have never properly been replaced. The catchment area though is just too small.
However I still think the region as a whole has much to offer inbound tourism, & I wonder how well the area is marketed in that direction.
Many routes for the oil/gas community (that they would wish for) would not be viable from here - that's the bottom line (eg. Baku; now Gronigen). Unless it's an ad-hoc on a business jet. Again, maybe more should therefore be invested to attract the GA market?