Originally Posted by
John R81
With the "usual" standard of journalism.
"Helicopter pub-crawls are good for business. That's because helicopters are expensive to keep in the air. So stopping at a pub keeps the costs down and margins up."
Really?? There is obviously a different pricing policy in Australia; here in UK you pay me for flight time so my machine earns nothing when sat outside the pub.
I think that Australian operators have understood pricing policies for quite some time. $A3k in an R44 for about two hours flying more than compensates for the waiting time on these trips with a budgeted cost around $A630 per hour (DoC and FoC).