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Old 27th Jan 2014, 12:56
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terminus mos
 
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Cyclic, you may not be adversarial at grass roots level but every time a "customer" contributes here there is the same old song, which seems at odds with your claim not to be.

Trying to drive the cost down, don't care about safety, dare to ask technical questions, you don't need to know because it's pilot's stuff, you don't pay enough, helicopter travel is only 2% of transport budget, oil companies make obscene profits etc, all those comments seem adversarial to me.

Maybe that's just pilots on this forum?

To answer your "trickier" question about always wanting to drive down cost by wedging helicopter operators, we have already introduced max pax loads of 16 with unused seats removed in 225s and 92s. The initiative was led by our aviation department (and supported by our workforce),not the helicopter operator. We do not fly the 332L because we do not believe in flying passengers in 32 year old (cheap) helicopters and they wouldn't fly in them anyway. However, helicopter companies like to try to tempt us with cheap 332 deals believing that only money talks.
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