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.
So, to answer my question, if you are totally unhappy with the awful service you are being provided with, why don't you do it yourself? There is nothing to stop the oil majors setting up and doing it better. They won't because it is too expensive. Well done, you took some seats out of a type, it doesn't make the operation any safer. I can make the system safer, probably, you will need more helicopters and staff, you will need to invest considerably, you will need to commit to long term contracts, you will need considerably more training (passengers and management) etc, etc. Positive suggestions, not adversarial. By the way, this is a pilots' forum not a "trade" magazine whether you like it not. Quite happy to give reasonable answers to reasonable questions whoever asks, we do it everyday.