Dayvallen never much liked Africans (is this symptomatic of some Oyibos born in East African countries which are now not very pro-European - just a question, not a contentious statement
) and is now seemingly topping up Caverton with his old (European) buddies. What does this say about the employment policies of a company which proclaims itself at every opportunity as an 'indigenous' company'?
. Why was Josiah Choms not promoted into the post of Operations Manager? Why was a man who was replaced in Nigeria by CHC and then in Brazil by the same company brought in without consultation to replace Dave Lippeatt? Why is Josiah Choms the only national pilot in a managerial operations post with the 'Shell' project? Does Sunny have no influence on this at all? This is a supposedly indigenous company which has just brought in mostly expatriate managers on its most important IOC contract which seems to run as a company-within-a-company
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All is not well with their partnership with Heli Onion and 2012 will see some interesting developments their as HU struggle to find staff willing to work with Caverton. They may seek to play on the French content whilst flying for intensely xenophobic Total who have a hate/hate relationship with Bristow, but if Heli Onion cannot get enough garlic-eaters to fly their machines inn Nigeria will Caverton allow enough Nigerians to progress?
There has been some gushing about what a significant place CHC is going to have in all of this next year but they still have no AOC, the DG of the NCAA is due for replacement soon so the reality is that actions speak louder then words. They may profit from Total's dislike of what Bristow are offering them now, unless they can conjure some S92s or EC225s to replace their unreliable AS332s
As somebody has said - interesting times to come in Nigeria.