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New 225 bookings for the North Sea sector started to dry up a couple of years ago, well before the grounding. Airbus forecasts for the 225 predicted the majority of business would come from the military, and so it was proven. The grounding in some sectors, has had a slight impact on revenue.
As I have said many times before here I think the North Sea market is pretty much over for the 225, and not just because of the accident. The O&G market has been down longer than before and other than in the US is not showing much of an uptick.
The 225 (or rather its military versions) can certainly be re-engineered to have a bright military future and there are areas of the world where it can continue commercially.
The elephant in the room which is just not going away is doubt over the safety of the MGB. Nothing that has been said yet, is going to change that. However, there is nothing to stop AH setting out a radical re-engineering plan or, if/when it really knows, to explain exactly why this happened and a clear indication that that has been fully fixed.