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Old 8th Jun 2016, 15:28
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Given the EC225 is already grounded by EASA, that's basically saying that they will not reintroduce the EC225 after the grounding is lifted in due course. The company had already stopped EC225 flights globally (see statement) when only UK and Norwegian CAAs grounded it and before EASA did. CHC were thus including the 8 they have in Australia along with the 9 in UK, and 13 in Norway - a total fleet of 30 EC225s.

We are half way through the 60 day period over which they are going to hand back 90 helicopters to lessors by 10th July approx, which they expected to include 20 EC225s.

There is a possibility that today's BBC report is a strategic move as part of the fleet reduction to open up the way to hand back more/all EC225s and keep more S92s to ensure they can continue to service their existing contracts.

The idea of "Chapter 11" is to emerge back out of it profitably in the future, of course.
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