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You say that Caverton has no idea what it's doing. That may well be true as it's a new company owned by people who are completely new to the aviation industry, although I'm told that most of the directors are economics graduates of British universities. All companies have to start somewhere and even the mighty Bristow, though it was started by an aviator, had no commercial experience when it started as a whale spotting company. I believe the new Managing Director is a Geology graduate who also presumably knows little about aviation. Most private helicopter companies in Europe are run by people who know little or nothing about aviation and they either hite consultants or set up aviation departments manned by aviation professionals to do the job for them.
Companies like Caverton, new to the business hire specialist consultants and advisers to give them that knowledge they don't possess themselves. If you were one of those advisers it would seem that you did not serve them well
The rumour has it that they will be bringing a couple of helicopters later this month (Dauphins I hear) and starting a shuttle service in Port Harcourt. It's mentioned on their website and they already seem to have a small terminal next to Pan African at the Port Harcourt NAF Base. Their Ops Manager was seen in Portugal by a couple of the Aero pilots who were out on leave.
They do seem to have been around for a long time and doing very little, but aviation is a difficult market to break in to and you can't expect them to just be up and running like a Bristow or an Aero who have been around for 40 or 50 years. If they have already spent as much as you claim it would seem to indicate that they are serious and setting up a proper infrastructure before starting to operate, though I do agree that the A109 seems a strange choice for starting an operation. If and when they do manage to get something up and running, instead of knocking a company which is trying to start up and will offer more employment to people in this industry, lets wish them every success in getting their venture off the ground (no pun intended)
