Noooby is correct. The place is a disaster. A new "LOCAL" GM has been crowned and the place just keeps getting worse. Just a fraction under 60% turnover of pilots in 2004. My guess is that engineering was about the same.
The oil companies recently went to the Oil Minister to complain about the company's poor performance but he and the "LOCAL" board of directors simply closed ranks around the GM and nothing happened.
Conaco Phillips is so worried about the poor performance of the company that they've placed a permanent auditor at Gulf Helis to monitor the maintneance of their machine and the qualifications of the pilots flying their contract.
Also Doha had its first suicide car bomber a couple of months ago.