I could be wrong but I suspect that much has been going on behind the scenes to separate Eastern away from Bristow. I heard a few months back that the ownership structure has changed and I’ve not heard anything since to contradict that.
I don’t share the doom, I’m pretty convinced that if everything bar the east coast routes are binned a lean EA focused on its lucrative oil support work, sports charters and other long term charter and lease work could turn a profit if they get the aircraft mix right, hard decisions I suppose to get to that point.
My only worry is that BRS seemed incapable of making those reasonably obvious decisions so what chance anyone else?