Suraggu
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Perhaps you need to consider why this might be.
There are significant numbers of people travelling from North East England to the Aberdeen area to work in the oil industry. This sustains flights to the likes of Leeds/Humberside/Teesside/Newcastle. Whilst most domestic flights in the UK seem to be full of the laptop carrying office boy brigade, I have noticed the flights from Aberdeen seem to have a higher portion of manual workers e.g. travelling home after a spell on the rigs.
If providing a through service attracts/keeps some of this market on rail at a profit then why not?
I have no idea how much of the Aberdeen through traffic has alighted by York-perhaps it would make more sense to run the Cross Country service to Aberdeen, rather than East Coast.
Plenty of Riggers live in Teeside/North Yorkshire/Tyne & Wear and use the East Coast/Cross Country Aberdeen services. So much so the 0952 Ex Aberdeen -KGX on Fridays alcohol is banned due to the antisocial behaviour problems from the riggers.
Yes plenty of flights to Aberdeen and I have spoken to riggers and most buy walk on tickets because flights cancelled or its just convenient because of the nature of their work. The Aberdeen trains make East Coast a lot of money per train and running the minimum of 3 per day to/from London and the 1 a day from Leeds is the bare minimum.
Their have been calls post IEP for a Middlesbrough -Aberdeen service once a day in each direction because of the Rigger traffic.