As far as I can find out, yes, the police pilots are all still employed and operating as normal. I believe that the company itself is still operating too, with charter aircraft and maintenance at Blackbushe, and that there have been no redundancies.

I just hope for the sake of all involved that what i've heard is correct, and that this does not change.

And the Royal contract?

...is nothing to do with PremiAir (other than occasionally borrowing pilots).

Well who does all their maintenance and the majority of their charter then?

Back to the thread - what a shame the owner has used the Company as a cash cow now all his other businesses have gone. I feel sorry for all those who have worked so hard to try to do their best in the face of adversity over the last few years.

Hopefully another owner can be found, but preferably one with more helicopter vision than GAMA turned out to have for the former Mann empire, and before the company loses all its remaining good people.

The rumour is that there are some interested parties in the wings but that Mr D@v!€$ is such a toxic entity that no-one has any interest in dealing with him so they will wait until the company goes into administration and deal with the administrators instead. (Can't say i blame them).

Hope it gets sorted soon for the good of all concerned.

OH

Helisniper:

"Hopefully another owner can be found, but preferably one with more helicopter vision than GAMA turned out to have for the former Mann empire, and before the company loses all its remaining good people"

What have Gama done to neglect helicopters? I understood they'd taken on all of the contract helicopter engineers, are re-furbing the Heli hangar and have actively pushed to attract new work.

I hope all goes well for the folks at PremiAir, got some friends there.

I too hope all goes well for the people there, I was one of the team from 2000-2005, based at Denham for most of those. A couple of articles on helihub.

UK – PremiAir problems mount with key resignation(s) | Helihub - the Helicopter Industry Data Source

UK – PremiAir stops trading at Denham – what’s next? | Helihub - the Helicopter Industry Data Source

Really sad news for the workforce. I left PremiAir a couple of years ago (on good terms!) and found them to be a great employer. Hopefully they will bounce back!

any more news on what's happenning at Blackbushe?

Aircraft are landing, aircraft are taking off. :)

Let's re-phrase that...
Any more news on PremiAir at Blackbushe, now that Denham ops appears to have taken a turn for the worse?

:(

The word hourglass comes to mind.

Would like to know what happened to those customers whose helis were locked in the hangars at Denham through PremiAir's non-payment of rent?

Yes, the Denham side of things is now operating out of Blackbush.

Class. Reading between the lines, Premier owe Denham a shed load of money to the point that airfield management are forced to change the locks. I'll take a stab at a few hundred thousand in rent and fuel. One also presumes that there has been previous discussion between the parties as no one would be daft enough to lock the doors at the first opportunity. Management transfer business activity to another airfield, for which everyone should be eternally grateful, leaving Denham with an IOU.

Call me a bluff old traditionalist, but I'm not convinced this will do anything other than provide short term respite to an apparent cash flow problem; the elephant is almost definitely still in the room. The bit that gets under my skin is that for every company that fails, another is almost inevitably dragged down.

No customer helis were affected, nor any PremiAir helis.

Lets hope blackbushe are offering rent / fuel etc on a prepay basis :)

.............and let us hope Denham get paid..........

PremiAir got sold today.:ok:

To Graham Avery....who he?

I hope it all works out.

No obvious aviator with that name after a brief search.