Well as Nigeria's only AS332 operator, Bristow is in incipient headless chicken mode now. After one S92 being taken off contract caused lots of people to be moved back on to other types, all training cancelled, the sudden grounding of the Super Pumas has caused so much knee jerking that it seems the management has gone into 'Mexican jumping bean mode'.
Can you just imagine all the managers in Houston now all trying to preserve their jobs and/or expand their sphere of influence:
I jerked my knee against the table and Aetna has been useless - lets see who we can blame for that and find another medical insurer
Well obviously this will mean we need more S92s and we need to get rid of the Super Pumas for the next 6 weeks until it all changes again so we must expand business development to look for more contracts.
Well we have far too many Soopah Pooma pilots now so we need to cut pilot numbers urgently. Check the hours and make anybody with less than 70 hours last month redundant. The spreadsheets show that we have far, far too many pilots. All pilots must fly 2 types or be cut, cut, cut.
But that means we'll need more HR associates, so we need to get Foamy to hire lots more HR associates to deal with sacking pilots soonest.
This means lots of work for accountants with all the new spreadsheets we'll need working out EBITDAHs and ooh-la-la-lays so we must take on more accounts staff immediately.
Well with all these new staff we'll have to create a new VP position and make sure there are adequate support staff for that post.
We also need to hire more client liaison officers to explain what allthese changes mean in terms of Bristow value add and to shield management from any awkward questions about the future use of the Super whatever-it-is
Well this is obviously a safety issue so we must hire more Q&S and HSE staff immediately.
Great, that's all sorted then. Pilot numbers down, all others up, so where shall we have our conference dinner this evening?