Originally Posted by
terminus mos
Birmingham
You are welcome to your opinion but if this is down to a failure mode which is simple to fix like the strut mounting bolts being checked by the latest EASB, the 225 could fly again. As for CHC having financial problems, Chapter 11 could be just what CHC needs to stop bleeding cash to the leasing companies who won't negotiate. As for Airbus, well they can spin their way out of most things.
As an oil and gas company advisor, I have spent many hours this week in front of my CEO and Directors. Not one member of our board has a closed mind to re habilitating the 225. We have all flown in the 225 and as a company, we have many safe hours of 225 flight.
If and when appropriate, we will design and follow a process with our stakeholders and passengers, regardless of the time and complexity of such a process. We are not at all desperate, we run a mixed fleet and activity levels are such that we can make do with the other aircraft we have contracted for a while.
I have nothing against the thing personally and pointed out its 4 million plus hours record. I would certainly use one, but to suggest this time it is business as usual is naive in my view.