The end of the 4/4 along with all touring pilots having to travel at weekends has been on the cards for a while. Houston is ruled by bean counters and they hate 4/4 because all they can see is the cost of the extra flights
. They have no concept of pilots on operations like Agip timing out after less than 28 days. They look at flying hours of a pilot who's been on a night standby and say he's not productive
. I wonder how many of the oil companies we support are paying for a night standby thinking they have a crew of their own whilst in fact 2 crews are covering 4 or 5 companies' night standby requirements and Bristow is just hoping they don't all have a call out at the same time which would expose their night standby contracts as smoke and mirrors
