According to the staff briefs being given in the UK, the new company (CHC Europe) will be the all singing all dancing pan Europe company which will be fit to compete against the lean and mean new starts like Bond.
The new Operations Director (who has the diplomacy skills of a bull in a china shop - and similar intellegence, some people say) has persuaded the MD to turn everyone upside down, shake them all about and see where everybody lands. A heap of new management posts with titles no-one understands has been created and all existing managers who have been told their jobs are "at risk" are having to apply for the new jobs.
In the meantime, no-one is running the company on a day to day basis. Aberdeen lost a chief pilot to Bond (no great loss actually) and the replacement has resigned to go to Bond within a few days of his appointment. Again, no great loss except for the embarrasment to the company. After he resigned, he was told he had to go to work in Norway to work his notice. He is now "off sick" . The latest Aberdeen chief pilot is a nice guy but is not licenced on any type operating from the base !!
As far as merging Norway,Ireland, UK and Denmark is concerned, no consideration seems to have been given to the different cultures involved.
We wait with interest to see what will happen. One thing is sure, the directorship of the company has no idea how to get the employees on their side.