Rather than inspiring any activity, the loss of the Shell contract seems to have completely paralysed Bristow, and the statement from the MD has just spread fear through all the bases with everyone over 60 wondering if they'll suddenly be pensioners within a few months. An almost all new management seems to be continuing as if nothing is amiss, with the Majah trying to micro-manage until the last dying days of his Raj with Wacko Jackoff trying to take that role over and interfere in everything while managing nothing. It's all terribly reminiscent of what happened to Aero after the CHC take over with lots of guys coming in who knew it all and thought operating in Nigeria is just like operating anywhere else.
I hear Caverton and DanCopter are already getting lots of applications, but a lot will depend on whether they get any managers with any real level of management experience rather than a float plane pilot with a nice hair do and a bunch of other amateurs who definitely need the continuing services of NN if they're going to do anything. What hogwash
Of course they'll do well; they're a bunch of well-connected Nigerians who don't need business sense in the Western model, just the know-how of what it takes to do business the African way. Aero and Bristow should both be very afraid.