Originally Posted by
Apate
Yup, I'll give you that one. There is a single AW189 on contract in Aberdeen, which mainly plies it's trade to and from the Forties with Bristow. Six years since certification and only one machine in regular use in the Northern N Sea, it's hardly the revolution that was being "talked" about. By contrast there's about a 80 active O&G S92s between the UK and Norway.
Isn't that as much a side effect of the contracting market and the full utilisation of the 92 fleet globally as opposed to new capital being spent on aircraft acquisitions? Just my observation and an ex-offhsore pilot watching in from the sideline