I think you'll find that Epiphany was being sarcastic. If so, he has no clue what he's talking about.
Fact of the matter is, that when Dancopter was in Den Helder for a year, they were already sure that they would nick the contract from Bristow. This unfortunately didn't happen, because Bristow beat them on KPI's, which was set up by Shell to see who performed better.
Bristow didn't keep Shell because of two reasons:
1. They didn't want to give into Shell and their ridiculous demands any more.
2. Some autonomous person high up in the chain of Shell has had a hard on for the Danes ever since they flew with them in Den Helder. Dancopter seemed to perform so well compared to Bristow... Better payloads, went when Bristow didn't, etc. They only failed to overlook the fact why Dancopter seemed to perform better, which was because Dancopter used unfair competition. Meaning, using destination minima as alternate minima, having half the final reserve fuel, not having the same crash-worthy fuel tanks (Shell requirement), thus lighter = more payload and also having a different interpretation on "flying in
known icing conditions".
So back to school Epiphany!
