PANews
I'm sure that if Cambridgeshire Police have OK'd this internally, they will "buy dollars" now to preserve the exchange rate - they may actually make some money out of just that transation given the current rate.
However, your "cheap as chips" comments need expanding further. It suggests that MD are dumping aircraft on the market in desparation to get some cash? Why would they need to do that - are you suggesting the Dutch contract is in serious jeopardy and that MD now need to sell 8 white-tails into the market? I note that the new South Yorkshire aircraft was a serial number originally allocated to the Dutch contract, but that does not always mean much as MSNs do change "on the line" prior to delivery.
Just how bad is the MD situation? Redundancies? How many more white tails? If you check their boss's predications at HAI - (
see here ), he predicted all the 8 Dutch ones delivered by year end, also 5 to Germany (the 3rd delivered last week) and 10 600Ns to Turkey (status anyone?).
Remember too that there's an EMS sale to Northumbria announced at Helitech - wonder what they will make of all this?
BTW, did you really mean "Vertitair"....? it reminded me of S****horpe...............
ppheli
PS
wow, that was clever of PPRUNE! In that last sentence, I put the name of a Yorkshire coastal town and PPRUNE functionality converted it to asterisks! It sort of helps to prove my little jest rather nicely....