Vie, I appreciate your views and knowledge. I'm afraid I can't answer your question though. I agree with you when you talk about the RAF, RN, CHC and Bristow being at the frontline of SAR cover in the UK. I would have thought that knowledge/experience worldwide would play a bigger part of the bid than just locally. I may well be completely off the mark as I've never been in the SAR business, I'm just interested and want to understand why people seem narrow minded about Avincis (Bond) and were taken back with this latest news of CHC.
RRPM