4 hrs is better than the 3 hrs it was! Fortunately none of our aircraft are affected. 4 hrs is sufficient to do the average NNS trip out of Aberdeen, not up to the Basin though. I suppose those affected have to carry a laptop, download it offshore and hope for green traffic light, else stuck offshore!
On the P&J article I would prefer to wait for the AAIB report before forming an opinion. Bond and EC have a commercial relationship and so the view of EC could not be considered to be impartial. Whilst Bond and EC will be primarily concerned about where the blame lies, and clearly the primary fault is with the shaft manufacture, and clearly all credit to the crew for pulling off a safe ditching, the AAIB will hopefully be more impartial and may identify ways that the fault could have been picked up earlier (or maybe not) which may allow us all to learn how to prevent a recurrence. It might or might not show that operators who downloaded their HUMS data more frequently would have caught the problem.