Imlach has probably turned out to be more trouble than he's worth. When Danny Holder took over as MD in Nigeria, he made a lot of necessary cuts of surplus personnel and unnecessary perks but tried to do it in as humane a way as he could. Imlach seems to just enjoy making cuts because he could and did them in an unpleasant and provocative way which led to a fairly unpleasant strike. It can't have gone un-noticed that after the recent S76 ditching he was sent in as MD and yet again there was a strike of national staff. As far as I can see he got his just deserts. Jeremy Akel was really just over-promoted. He was a salesman and negotiator not a senior manager.
In the present market there will probably be more cuts in the pipeline as Bristow reorganises, but its management structure in Houston is far too bloated and none of the staff on the line who have suffered the biggest cuts will believe anything coming from the fat cats until there are far more cuts in HR, finance and legal to match those on the front line.