Brisbane Wins Olympic Game 2032 - Helicopter Forecast - Good News!
Australia needed some cheerful news as the pandemic is running amuck. And it has arrived not too soon!
A report is being prepared by CEO RAPBA starting with World Expo 88, also known as Expo 88, which was a specialised Expo held in Brisbane, the state capital of Queensland, Australia, during a six-month period between Saturday, 30 April 1988 and Sunday, 30 October 1988, inclusive. The theme of the Expo was "Leisure in the Age of Technology", and the mascot for the Expo was an Australian platypus named Expo Oz. They forecast 7 million - but 14 million eventually turned up - big boost then for City and Country Helicopters (Official World Expo 88 Helicopter Service). Every major international event since then has provided a boost several years prior and six months beyond. Why? See our report in e-News July Report.
Anyhow, on 30 June '21 looking back ten years the CASA register increased by 2.9% or 559 helicopters. Now 2,433.
Assuming the next ten years (actually 11) continues at a rate of the past decade then looking ahead to the Olympics 11 years away our register should grow to 3,208 or an extra 775 machines. A conservative guess as no allowance has been made for the Olympic construction and programme development 2-3 years prior.
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The future load upon our 41 schools over the next eleven years represents a need for 2,650 CPLH. Will keep the FEE-HELP folk busy? And RW MROs - 320,000 training hours.
Rob - CEO RAPBA.