Originally Posted by
Nigerian Expat Outlaw
What was done to Bristow by JB (the CEO after Bill Chiles left) should have resulted in criminal charges. Along with RB (SVP Ops at the time) they choked the life out of the bases, upsetting clients and employees simultaneously. We lost clients we'd had for decades and shed so many essential employees we were almost at a standstill while JB siphoned money out to fund his Ivory Tower in Houston. RB was so arrogant and rude to everyone he encountered, one client's Global Aviation Manager walked out of their first meeting and refused to ever communicate with him.
How sad that it has come to this. ERA need to be very careful not to reward failure as Bristow have done since 2014.
NEO
Funny you should say that. Posted elsewhere by me a few days ago:
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These companies ... ... ... started out, succeeded, and grew to prominence while being run by people who could fly. Now they are run by folks with a MBA instead of an ATPL(H) who are determined to rip as much cash out of the company as possible and pump it into the pockets of shareholders, including themselves, by the year end. Post-bankruptcy, they are run by a broadly similar set of rip-off artists."