If you speak to the Aeropelican boys & girls they will tell you the calibre of the Business Air Holdings team that were running Aeropelican from 2009 onwards.
THis is the team that negotiated the buy-out of Brindabella and the subsequent merger.
This is the team that scheduled 5 aeroplanes worth of flying when the fleet only totalled 5 aeroplanes.
THis is the team that sprung complex operational changes - such as the Aeropelican Brisbane base - on the Operations team with 6 weeks notice because they didn't trust the operations team with commercial-in-confidence information. The operations team read about it over their cornflakes in the morning and spent the next 6 weeks busting their balls because the Commercial team had already loaded the fares in the system and advertised the route.
There have been more than 30 flights cancelled to/from Narrabri since April and Moree and all the other ports are similar.
The management never engage with the staff and treat them with contempt; At the moment they will not give pilots or the Union any information and will not even answer or return phone calls.
Jeff Boyd sold hi share out many months ago, I am told - he could see this coming.
The CASA-haters here will bleat on about how it all happened just before Xmas etc etc etc but this was always going to happen -the writing was on the wall 3 years ago.
