SASless,
I guess you're right. For commercial operators the only 3 things which matter, in order of priority are, profit, profit, profit. Which is rather sad as I seem to remember from some previous posts of yours that you once worked in Nigeria for a large operator of whom you seemed to be rather fond
I seem to remember that one of their pilots from there went to fly a Bell 206 for the British Antarctic Survey and crashed in the snow. Of course that was said to have been due to a faulty heater causing carbon monoxide poisoning, but.....
