Unfortunately for CHO, sounds like they will not get an opportunity to resume flights. Customer(s) have decided to cancel their contract early in Halifax. Contract has been awarded back to their direct competitor. Rumour has it, the company has had a rash of issues leading up to the accident and the customer had already issued an EOI for the remaining work prior to the event.
The accident probably sealed their fate but after chatting with a few guys apparently there has been an extremely high rate of turn over in the pilots and engineers. Quick s92 job search makes this quite clear ... they were looking for a s92 chief pilot, assistant chief pilot, captains, FOs, avionics engineers, maint engineers. That’s a lot of open positions for a small company. Was also told that there has been a long on-going labour dispute that sounded like the company had no intentions of settling, which explains the turn over. Guess they don’t have to worry about that anymore, as I believe Halifax was their only operation.
Got the general feeling that it has been a very mismanaged company and in fact, there has even been some recent turn over in that department as well.
Too bad for the guys there, hopefully there will be room for most in the new operator.