Originally Posted by
johni
If companies sponsored IRs there would be no shortage of candidates.
Agreed, but companies can't sponsor IRs when the oil companies are still insisting on screwing their aviation suppliers down to the lowest of low single digit percentages.
In the current economic direction there can be no sponsorships, no investment in new technology and no (no matter what anyone says) true advances in safety.
The oil companies need to understand that there is a minimum price for a quality aviation service...and they are not meeting it. That's why it is so laughable that the CMA state that this [so called] loss of competition will result in a degradation of safety. It would do just the opposite. Fewer suppliers would result in a steady rise in margins for the aviation suppliers and that, indeed, would result in greater safety and new, safer, technology.