Well said Keke
Most corporations when they start a small expansion seem to employ a lot more bean-counters, blanket stackers, and human remains 'associates'.
Bean counters can only count beans, they have no idea what it takes to make a helicopter fly safely and the fact that a pilot who is on night standby is not generating revenue. Bean counters generate no revenue at all
Blanket stackers are only useful for getting the necessary spare parts to the ginger beers. Since they became supply chain operatives and not store men there seem to be a lot of broken links
Human remains 'associates' are mostly a waste of baby gravy and only seem capable of getting contracts of employment wrong, gross mis-spelling and having no real clue as to how many staff a company actually has, where they're based or what they do.
When company offices are expanded it's usually to employ more bean counters or human remainers - and let's not forget the new must-have; business development staff. We used to call them salesmen and they knew something about helicopters. Nowadays they're mostly lawyers and no absolutely nothing about helicopters
Bristow is following the classic route of many behemoths before it. Trying to cut front line staff (who actually generate revenue) whilst increasing the number of non-essential hangers on. Senior managers in jobs like blanket stacking and bean counting employ a lot more staff so when there are cuts to be made they can sacrifice people they never needed in the first place
As the only operator presently able to get large and medium helicopters to fill the gaps, Bristow is sure to survive, but I foresee more work going to the likes of CHC, Caverton and Aero in the next few years